John Wilson Croker

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John Wilson Croker

John Wilson Croker (born December 20, 1780 in Galway , † August 10, 1857 in Hampton , London ) was an English speaker, poet and journalist.

Life

John Croker studied law at Trinity College in Dublin , then practiced there and was elected to Parliament by County Down in Ireland in 1807 . As the first secretary of the Admiralty, he gained influence on the administration of the maritime affairs, but resigned his position in 1830 and fought in parliament from 1830–32 as Tory against the Reform Bill . Croker was an advocate of Catholic emancipation , for which he had advocated in his 1807 pamphlet The State of Ireland, Past and Present .

In his Familiar epistles (1804) he castigated the Irish theater , and in An intercepted letter from China (1805) he described the customs of Dublin with relentless satire. His poem The Battles of Talavera (1809) met with great acclaim, as did his Stories from the history of England , which W. Scott served as a model for his Tales of a grandfather . The Songs of Talavera (1806) and the font A sketch of Ireland, past and present (1807) still deserve mention. With Scott and Canning he founded the Quarterly Review in 1809 , for which he wrote many articles, some of which were very remarkable; he also edited Boswell's Johnson (1831, 5 volumes, last in 1874). See Correspondence and diaries of the RH John Wilson C. (edited by Jennings, London 1884). The Croker Passage , a strait in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago , bears his name.

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personal data
SURNAME Croker, John Wilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English speaker, poet and journalist, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Galway
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1857
Place of death Hampton (London)