{{Short description|Manx politician (born 1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2010}} {{Infobox person | name = Alan Crowe | birth_name = Edward Alan Crowe | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|1 September 1940}} | birth_place = Isle of Man | education = Kirk Michael Primary School<br />Ramsey Grammar School<br />Loughborough Training College | occupation = Politician, teacher | employer = Isle of Man Bank (1968–72)<br />Isle of Man Government<br />(1991–present){{citation needed|date=February 2018}} | years_active = 1991–present{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} | spouse = Dorothy Wagstaff | children = 2 }} '''Edward "Alan" Crowe''' MLC, FCIS, ACIB (born 1 September 1940<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=Crowe, Edward Alan |url=http://www.tynwald.org.im/tynwald/biographies/crowe-ea.pdf |publisher=www.tynwald.org |accessdate=2011-11-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414183742/http://www.tynwald.org.im/tynwald/biographies/crowe-ea.pdf |archivedate=2012-04-14 }}</ref>) is a former Manx politician and former teacher,<ref name="bio" /> who was successively a member of both branches of Tynwald in the Isle of Man.
==Early life and career== Born on 1 September 1940 to George Henry Crowe and Esther Annie Crowe (née Caley), he was educated at Ramsey Grammar School and Loughborough Training College. He was awarded a teaching diploma, and taught initially in England and then in Canada. He then embarked upon a banking career, initially with the Isle of Man Bank, and became the Company Secretary and Executive Director of various companies, including Eagle Star (International Life). He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, a Chartered Company Secretary and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
He contested Douglas North unsuccessfully in the 1991 General Election, but was elected Member of the House of Keys for that constituency in a 1995 by-election.<ref name=Kermode2001 >{{citation | last=Kermode | first=D. G. | year=2001 | title=Offshore island politics: the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man in the twentieth century | publisher=Liverpool University Press | isbn=978-0-85323-777-8 | page=325 }}</ref> He was elevated to the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man in 1998, and remained there until his retirement in 2003. He returned to the Council from 2007 to 2015.
==Government positions== *Chairman of the Financial Supervision Commission, 2001–03 *Chairman of Isle of Man Post Office, 2008–11
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