Robert attended Warwick School, and in fact was in the same school rugby side as Sidney Nelson Crowther, the first Old Warwickian to gain international honours for Great Britain.
He was the son of Alfred H. Crowther, a solicitor, of Gray's Inn and Mary Crowther.
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