The artist was born Thomas Montague Crick in Leicestershire in 1872.  He was married to Jessie Anne McTurk and the couple lived in Norwich. They had one son, Rupert, born 1903.  

The artist exhibited three paintings at the RA before 1904, and is noted by Whybrow among the early visitors to St Ives. His known address was in Norwich, Norfolk. No further information is currently available at this time.