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John Wilson Croker

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Wilson Croker , 1780-1857, British Tory politician and author, b. Ireland. He was a member of Parliament from 1807 to 1832 and secretary of the admiralty from 1810 to 1830. The most famous of his regular contributions as a critic to the Quarterly Review was his virulent attack (1818) on Keats's Endymion. Croker's best work was his careful edition (1831) of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Bibliography: See Croker Papers (ed. by L. J. Jennings, 3 vol., 1884; repr. 1972). Author not available, CROKER, JOHN WILSON. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Croker, John Wilson
Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857). An Irish...Trinity College, Dublin, Croker had two separate though...over the Corn Laws, which Croker thought had ‘ruined...remains a contrast between Croker's public image as sarcastic... Read more
Croker, John Wilson
Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857). An Irish lawyer, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Croker had two separate though related careers...his conversion over the Corn Laws, which Croker thought had ‘ruined the character... Read more

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