Family and Education
b. 20 Dec. 1780, 2nd s. of John Croker, surveyor-gen. port of Dublin, being 1st s. by 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; Rev. Richmond Hood’s sch. Portarlington; Trinity, Dublin 1796; 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.
Offices Held
Customs comptroller of Wexford, Waterford and Ross May 1804 – May 1807; sec. to Admiralty Oct. 1809 – Nov. 1830; PC 16 June 1828.
Dir. Greenwich Hosp. 1815.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Minster House, Fulham, Mdx.
Notes
Based on L. J. Jennings, Mems., Diaries and Corresp. of J. W. Croker (3 vols. 1884) and M. F. Brightfield, J. W. Croker (1940), except as below.
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Commons 1790-1820
Web Title
CROKER, John Wilson (1780-1857)
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