CROKE, John (1508/9-49/51), of London.

Family and Education

b. 1508 /9, s. of one Croke of Winchester, Hants. educ. Winchester coll. adm. 1519; New Coll. Oxf. adm. 11 May 1526, fellow 11 May 1528, BCL 12 July 1534, DCL 11 July 1543; Coll. of Advocates, adm. 7 Oct. 1543. m. by 1547, Dorothy, da. of John Theobald of Seal, Kent.Date of birth estimated from age on admission to Winchester college. Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 151; C. Coote, Civilians, 36; CPR, 1553-4, p. 2; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. lxxv), 136; W. Boys, Sandwich (1792) 246.

Offices Held

Proctor, archdeaconry of Oxford ct. by 1540; notary public 6 Sept. 1543; vicar-gen. diocese of London 1543 – d.; canon of St. Paul’s, London and prebendary of Ealdstreet 20 June 1544 – 30 Apr. 1547; dep. subsidy collector to Bp. Bonner of London 1545; adv. ct. arches by 1546, adv.-gen. by d. Emden, 151; Le Neve, Fasti 1541–1857, i (1969), 32; G. M. V. Alexander, ‘The life and career of Edmund Bonner, bp. of London, until his deprivation in 1549’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1960), 280, 357 n. 15; LP Hen. VIII, xx.

Parlimentarian

CROKE, John (1508/9-49/51), of London.

Main residence: London.

Author

P.S.E.

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

CROKE, John (1508/9-49/51)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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