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See also:GEORGE See also:CROLY (1780-1860) , See also:British divine and author, son of a See also:Dublin physician, was See also:born on the 17th of See also:August 1780 . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, and after ordination was appointed to a small curacy in the See also:north of See also:Ireland . About 18ro he came to See also:London, and occupied himself with See also:literary See also:work . A See also:man of restless See also:energy, he claims See also:attention by his extraordinary versatility . He wrote dramatic criticisms for a See also:short-lived periodical called the New Times ; he was one of the earliest contributors to See also:Blackwood's See also:Magazine; and to the Literary See also:Gazette he contributed poems, reviews and essays on all kinds of subjects . In 1819 he married See also:Margaret See also:Helen Begbie . Efforts to secure an See also:English living for See also:Croly were frustrated, according to the See also:Gentleman's Magazine (See also:Jan . 1861), because See also:Lord See also:Eldon confounded him with a See also:Roman See also:Catholic of the same name . Excluding his contributions to the daily and weekly See also:press his See also:chief See also:works were:—See also:Paris in 1815 (1817), a poem in See also:imitation of Childe Harold ; See also:Catiline (1822), a tragedy lacking in dramatic force; Salathiel: A See also:Story of the Past, the See also:Present and the Future (1829), a successful See also:romance of the " Wandering See also:Jew " type; The See also:Life and Times of his See also:late See also:Majesty See also:George the See also:Fourth (183o); See also:Marston; or, The Soldier and Statesman (1846), a novel of See also:modern life; The Modern Orlando (1846), a See also:satire which owes something to See also:Don Juan; and some See also:biographies, sermons and theological works . Croly was an effective preacher, and continued to See also:hope for preferment from the Tory leaders, to whom he had rendered considerable services by his See also:pen; but he eventually received, in 1835, the living of St See also:Stephen's, Walbrook, London, from a Whig See also:patron, Lord See also:Brougham, with whose See also:family he was connected . In 1847 he was made afternoon lecturer at the Foundling See also:hospital, but this See also:appointment proved unfortunate . He died suddenly on the 24th of See also:November 186o, in London . His Poetical Works (2 vols.) were collected in 183o . For a See also:list of his works see See also:Allibone's See also:Critical See also:Dictionary of English Literature (1859) . |
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