See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS CROFTON See also:CROKER (1798-1854)
, Irish See also:antiquary and humorist, was See also:born in See also:Cork on the 15th of See also:January 1798
.
He was apprenticed to a See also:merchant, but in 1819, through the See also:interest of See also: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:Croker, who was, however, no relation of his, he became a clerk in the See also:Admiralty
.
See also:Moore was indebted to him in the See also:production of his Irish Melodies for " many curious fragments of See also:ancient See also:poetry." In 1825 he produced his most popular See also:book, the See also:Fairy Legends and Traditions of the See also:South of See also:Ireland, which he followed up by the publication of his Legends of the Lakes (1829), his Adventures of Barney Mahoney (1852), and an edition of the Popular Songs of Ireland (1839)
.
In 1827 he was made a member of the Irish See also:Academy; in 1839 and 184o he helped to found the See also:Camden and See also:Percy See also:Societies, and in 1843 the See also:British Archaeological Association
.
He wrote Narratives Illustrative of the Contests in Ireland in 1641 and 1688 (1841), for the Camden Society, See also:Historical Songs of Ireland, &c
.
(1841), for the Percy Society, and several other See also:works
.
He was also a member of the See also:Hakluyt and the Antiquarian Society
.
He died in See also:London on the 8th of See also:August 1854
.
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