Ellen Crowe Ellen Crowe Ellen Crowe (c.1847 – 24 January 1930) was a New Zealand homemaker and community leader. She was born in Ballindooley, County Galway, Ireland on c.1847. She was the daughter of Bridget Cody and John Silke of Ballindooley, parish of Castlegar, County Galway, about 1847. When about 12 or 13, she was promised in marriage to John Crowe but by the time Ellen was 18 or 19, he had emigrated to New Zealand. Ned Crowe, John's brother, visited the family to tell them that John would send for Ellen. Silke was one of several hundred single women who received
Eyre Crowe is portrayed by actor Nicholas Farrell. Crowe is depicted as a competent and shrewd administrator, but one who is exasperated and confused by the Foreign Secretary's (Sir Edward Grey; portrayed by Ian McDiarmid) superior diplomatic prowess. The narrator of the series, a Second Division Clerk in the Foreign Office (portrayed by actor James McArdle), also describes Crowe as: "German born, educated in Berlin, but...more British than any one of us." Eyre Crowe Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe (30 July 1864 – 28 April 1925) was a British diplomat. He was a leading expert on Germany in the foreign office.