Family and Education
b. 20 Dec. 1780, 2nd s. of John Croker, surveyor-gen. port of Dublin, and 2nd w. Hester, da. of Rev. Richard Rathbone of Ballymore, co. Galway. educ. James Knowles’s sch. Cork; French émigré sch. Cork; Willis’s, Portarlington 1792; Trinity, Dublin 1796; King’s Inns 1798; L. Inn 1800, called [I] 1802. m. 25 May 1806, Rosamund Carrington, da. of William Pennell of Waterford, dep. comptroller of customs, later British consul, S. America, 1s. d.v.p. d. 10 Aug. 1857.
Offices Held
Customs controller of Wexford, Waterford and Ross 1804 – 07; sec. to admiralty Oct. 1809 – Nov. 1830; PC 16 June 1828.
Dir. Greenwich Hosp. 1815.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Munster House, Fulham, Mdx.; West Molesey, Surr.
Notes
Based, unless otherwise stated, on The Correspondence and Diaries of John Wilson Croker ed. Louis J. Jennings, 3 vols. (1844). The only modern biography is by Myron F. Brightfield (1940), which concentrates on Croker’s ‘relation to literary history and literary criticism’ (p. viii). See also Oxford DNB and W. Thomas, The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker (2000), 32-58, 96-101.
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Commons 1820-1832
Web Title
CROKER, John Wilson (1780-1857)
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