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Thomas Crofton Croker 1798-1854, Irish antiquary, b. Cork. One of the first to collect Irish folklore, he compiled Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825-28), Legends of the Lakes (1829), and Popular Songs of Ireland (1837).

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Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854), an Irish antiquary, probably the first collector to regard national and folk stories as a literary art. His Researches in the South of Ireland (1824), Fairy Legends and Traditions in the South of Ireland (1825–8), Legends of the Lakes (1829), and Popular Songs of Ireland (1839) provide a rich source of information on Irish folklore.
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Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798–1854), antiquarian. Born in Co. Cork, the son of an army officer, Croker left school at 16 for a commercial apprenticeship before becoming a clerk in the admiralty in London (1818–50). His works on Irish folklore, notably Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), were widely read. Both contemporary and later critics, however, questioned his fidelity to his sources and his reliability as an editor of such texts as the memoirs of the United Irish leader Joseph Holt.
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/30/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...researchers `located' it all over the South East and excitement about the mystery peaked in the 19th century when Thomas Crofton Croker told the Society of Antiquaries of London that a tomb he had found at Keston, Kent, was part of a temple in Noviomagus...
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Magazine article from: Western Folklore; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Through four case studies of translated Mrchen collections-Edgar Taylor's German Popular Stories (1823), Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825), Edward Lane's Arabian Nights (1839-1841...
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/15/1994; 700+ words ; ...1675; Jean-Francois Lesueur, composer, 1763; Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, general and statesman, 1770; Thomas Crofton Croker, folklorist, 1798; Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, social reformer, 1809; Jean-Baptiste Faure, baritone, 1830...
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Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 8/10/2007; 700+ words ; Edith Cox Sheila Croker Janey Gildea Nancy Hensley...Cox died Aug. 7 at the Crofton Convalescent Center...Whitsett, N.C. Sheila Croker Sheila Croker, 49...by her husband, Ron Croker; a daughter, Melissa...Stevenson; one brother, Thomas G. Lee Jr. of Sherwood...

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