See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

JOHN See also:

• WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
• WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
• WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
• WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
• WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
• WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
• WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
• WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
• WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
• WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
• WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
• WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
• WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
• WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
• WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )

WILSON See also:

• JOHN WILSON CROKER (1780-1857)
• CROKER, RICHARD (1843– )
• CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON (1798-1854)

CROKER (1780-1857)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British statesman and author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GALWAY

Galway on the loth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1780, being the only son of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• CROKER, JOHN WILSON (1780-1857)
• CROKER, RICHARD (1843– )
• CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON (1798-1854)

Croker,the surveyor-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of customs and See also:

• EXCISE (derived through the Dutch, excijs or accijs, possibly from Late Lat. accensare,—ad, to, and census, tax; the word owes something to a confusion with excisum, cut out)

excise in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland . He was educated at Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, where he graduated in 1800 . Immediately afterwards he was entered at See also:

• LINCOLN
• LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865)
• LINCOLN, EARLS OF

Lincoln's See also:

• INN

Inn, and in 1802 he was called to the Irish See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar . His See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Revolution led him to collect a large number of valuable documents on the subject, which are now in the British Museum . In 1804 he published anonymously See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

Familiar Epistles to J . F . See also:

• JONES
• JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
• JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
• JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
• JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
• JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
• JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
• JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
• JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
• JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
• JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
• JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
• JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
• JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
• JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
• JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)

Jones, See also:

• ESQUIRE (0. Fr. escuyer, Mod. Fr. ecuyer, derived through the form escudier from Med. Lat. scutarius, " shield-bearer ")

Esquire, on the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State of the Irish See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

Stage, a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• CAUSTIC (Gr. rcavvraubs, burning)

caustic criticisms in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse on the management of the Dublin theatres . The See also:

• BOOK

book ran through five See also:

• EDITIONS

editions in one See also:

• YEAR

year . Equally successful was the Intercepted See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

Letter from See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

Canton (1805), also See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous, a See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire on Dublin society . In 1807 he published a pamphlet on The State of Ireland, Past and See also:

• PRESENT

Present, in which he advocated See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic emancipation . In the following year he entered See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament as member for See also:

• DOWNPATRICK

Downpatrick, obtaining the seat on See also:

• PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

petition, though he had been unsuccessful at the See also:

• POLL

poll . The acumen displayed in his Irish pamphlet led See also:

• SPENCER
• SPENCER, HERBERT (1820-1903)
• SPENCER, JOHN CHARLES SPENCER, 3RD EARL (1782-1845)
• SPENCER, JOHNPOYNTZ SPENCER
• SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834)

Spencer See also:

• PERCEVAL, or PERCYVELLE (Ger. Parzival, Fr. Perlesvaus, Welsh, Peredur)
• PERCEVAL, SPENCER (1762-1812)

Perceval to recommend him in 1808 to See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

Arthur See also:

• WELLESLEY
• WELLESLEY, RICHARD COLLEY WESLEY (or WELLESLEY)

Wellesley, who had just been appointed to the command of the British forces in the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula, as his See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy in the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief secretary for Ireland .

This connexion led to a friendship which remained unbroken till See also:

• WELLINGTON
• WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, 1ST DUKE OF (1769-1852)

Wellington's See also:

• DEATH

death . The notorious See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York in connexion with his In 1827 he became the representative of the university of Dublin, having previously sat successively for the boroughs of See also:

• ATHLONE

Athlone, See also:

• YARMOUTH
• YARMOUTH (GREAT YARMOUTH)

Yarmouth (Isle of See also:

• WIGHT, ISLE OF

Wight), See also:

• BODMIN

Bodmin and See also:

• ALDEBURGH [ALDjIOROUGH]

Aldeburgh . He was a determined opponent of the Reform See also:

• BILL

Bill, and vowed that he would never sit in a reformed parliament; his See also:

• PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary career accordingly terminated in 1832 . Two years earlier he had retired from his See also:

• POST

post at the See also:

• ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

admiralty on a See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension of £1500 a year . Many of his See also:

• POLITICAL

political speeches were published in pamphlet See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, and they show him to have been a vigorous and effective, though somewhat unscrupulous and often virulently See also:

• PERSONAL

personal, party debater . Croker had been an ardent supporter of See also:

• PEEL
• PEEL, ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, 1ST VISCOUNT (1829- )
• PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART

Peel, but finally See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke with him when he began to See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate the See also:

• REPEAL (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal)

repeal of the See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

Corn See also:

• LAWS

Laws . He is said to have been the first to use (See also:

• JAN

Jan . 1830) the See also:

• TERM

term " conservatives." He was for many years one of the leading contributors on See also:

• LITERARY

literary and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical subjects to the Quarterly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review, with which he had been associated from its See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation . The rancorous spirit in which many of his articles were written did much to embitter party feeling . It also reacted unfavourably on Croker's reputation as a worker in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of pure literature by bringing political animosities into literary See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism . He had no sympathy with the younger school of poets who were in revolt against the artificial methods of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and he was responsible for the famous Quarterly See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article on See also:

• KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821)

Keats . It is, nevertheless, unjust to See also:

• JUDGE (Lat. judex, Fr. juge)

judge Croker by the criticisms which See also:

• MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, BARON (1800-1859)

Macaulay brought against his magnum See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

opus, his edition of See also:

• BOSWELL, JAMES (1740-1795)

Boswell's See also:

• LIFE

Life of See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson (1831) .

With all its defects the See also:

• WORK

work had merits which Macaulay was of course not concerned to point out, and Croker's researches have been of the greatest value to subsequent editors . There is little doubt that Macaulay had personal reasons for his attack on Croker, who had more than once exposed in the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House the fallacies that See also:

• LAY

lay hidden under the orator's brilliant See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric . Croker made no immediate reply to Macaulay's attack, but when the first two volumes of the See also:

• HISTORY

History appeared he took the opportunity of pointing out the inaccuracies that abounded in the work . Croker was occupied for several years on an annotated edition of See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope's See also:

• WORKS

works . It was See also:

• LEFT

left unfinished at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of his death, but it was afterwards completed by the Rev . Whitwell Elwin and Mr W . J . See also:

• COURTHOPE, WILLIAM JOHN (1842— )

Courthope . He died at St Albans See also:

• BANK

Bank, See also:

• HAMPTON
• HAMPTON, WADE (1818-1902)

Hampton, on the loth of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1857 . Croker was generally supposed to be the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original from which Disraeli See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of " See also:

• RIGBY, RICHARD (1722–1788)

Rigby " in Coningsby, because he had for many years had the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole management of the estates of the See also:

• MARQUESS (1760-1842)
• MARQUESS, or MARQUIS (Fr. marquis, Ital. marchese; from med. Lat. marchio, marchisus, i.e. comes marchiae, " count of the March ")

marquess of See also:

• HERTFORD
• HERTFORD, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Hertford, the " See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• MONMOUTH (Welsh Mynwy)
• MONMOUTH, BATTLE OF (1778)
• MONMOUTH, JAMES SCOTT
• MONMOUTH, ROBERT CAREY, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1560-1639)

Monmouth " of the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story; but the comparison is a See also:

• GREAT

great injustice to the See also:

• STERLING
• STERLING, ANTOINETTE (d. 1904)
• STERLING, JOHN (1806-1844)

sterling See also:

• WORTH
• WORTH, CHARLES FREDERICK (1825-1895)

worth of Croker's character . The chief works of Croker not already mentioned were his Stories for See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

Children from the History of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England (1817), which provided the See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model for See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott's Tales of a Grandfather; Letters on the See also:

• NAVAL

Naval See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War with See also:

• AMERICA

America; A Reply to the Letters of See also:

• MALACHI

Malachi Malagrowther (1826) ; Military Events of the French Revolution of 183o (1831); a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• BASSOMPIERRE, FRANCOIS DE (1579-1646)

Bassompierre s See also:

• EMBASSY

Embassy to England (1819) ; and several lyrical pieces of some merit, such as the Songs of See also:

• TRAFALGAR, BATTLE OF

Trafalgar (1806) and The Battles of Talavera (1809) . He also edited the See also:

• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk Papers (1823), See also:

• HERVEY, JAMES (1714–1758)

Hervey's See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court of See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George II .

(1817), the Letters of See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary Lepel, See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Hervey (1821-1822), and See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole'sLetters to Lord Hertford (1824) . His memoirs, diaries and See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence were edited by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis J . Jennings in 1884 under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of The Croker Papers (3 vols.) .