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    John Wilson Croker (20 December 1780 – 10 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author. He was born in Galway, the only son of John Croker, the...
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    course. He named the mountain range the Croker Mountains, after First Secretary to the Admiralty John Wilson Croker, and ordered the ship to turn around...
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  • John Croker (politician) (1680–1751), Irish politician John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), Irish politician and author John Coker (disambiguation) John Crocker...
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    the rhyme: I'm John Wilson Croker, I do as I please. Instead of an Ice-House I give you a... Frieze! The frieze was executed by John Henning at a cost...
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    but the criticisms were more ideological with them than with Keats. John Wilson Croker perpetuated the term "Cockney School" beyond the pages of Blackwood's...
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    The Battles of Talavera is an 1809 poem by the Irish writer John Wilson Croker. It was written in commemoration of the Battle of Talavera, where Sir Arthur...
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    Television Networks. Parker, John William (26 July 1834). "The Halifax Gibbet-Law". The Saturday Magazine (132): 32. Croker, John Wilson (1857). Essays on the...
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    Victoria); the Duchess of Kent; William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, John Wilson Croker, and Sir Humphry Davy. The Burtons' London mansion, The Holme of Regent's...
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  • grammarian and writer of boys' stories (died 1828) December 20 – John Wilson Croker, Irish statesman and author (died 1857) December 26 – Mary Somerville...
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    Stephen Fox. See Hervey's Memoirs of the Court of George II, edited by John Wilson Croker (1848); and an article by G. F. Russell Barker in the Dictionary of...
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    central character, Helen Graham. The Irish politician and writer John Wilson Croker took it as the inspiration for his own 1809 work The Battles of Talavera...
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  • ISBN 9781526753601. Boswell, James (1831). Croker, John Wilson (ed.). The life of Samuel Johnson. Vol. 2. London: John Murray. Stones, Graeme (2022). Parodies...
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    Hadlow. L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker. Volume I (London, 1885), p....
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    1880 The Millionaire- 1883 The Croker papers. The correspondence and diaries of the late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... secretary to the Admiralty...
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    the estate was managed by his distant relative (or of no relation), John Wilson Croker who was then Secretary of the Admiralty, and who procured him a position...
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    throughout the pages of his History of England. In the words of historian John Wilson Croker he pursued the Duke with "more than the ferocity, and much less than...
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    A particularly harsh review by John Wilson Croker appeared in the April 1818 edition of the Quarterly Review. John Gibson Lockhart writing in Blackwood's...
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    Early contributors included Secretaries of the Admiralty John Wilson Croker and Sir John Barrow, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, poet-novelist Sir Walter...
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    original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011. Bloy, Marjorie. "John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)". A Web of English History. Blumenthal, Ralph (26 December...
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    Canning, Robert Southey, John Hookham Frere and John Wilson Croker among its earliest contributors. He published Croker's popular poem The Battles of...
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  • Poems Thomas Brown – Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect John Wilson Croker – Familiar Epistles to J. F. Jones, Esquire, on the State of the Irish...
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  • of the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker and sister of Croker's wife. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, John Croker Barrow, author of the...
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    (1817), "Dispatches from Admiral Lord Exmouth, G.C.B., addressed to John Wilson Croker, Esq," in:The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics...
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    of His Tour to the Hebrides. Volume 3 by James Boswell. Edited by John Wilson Croker. Publisher: Derby & Jackson, New York, 1858. Page 11. Elizabeth Foyster;...
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    end of the strait. He named the apparent mountains "Croker Mountains", in honour of John Wilson Croker, then first secretary of the Admiralty. He then returned...
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    to see "more productions ... from this author". On the other hand, John Wilson Croker, writing anonymously in the Quarterly Review, although conceding that...
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    Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. John Wilson Croker, ed., Letters to and from Henrietta, countess of Suffolk, and her...
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    Moore, Thomas (1829) [1851]. John Wilson Croker (ed.). The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals. Vol. I. John Murray. pp. 154, 676. Retrieved...
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    under the Bourbon Restoration was attacked with outrageous fury by John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review, the author being accused of Jacobinism, falsehood...
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    passage was very roughly charted and named "Croker Inlet" by Henry Foster in 1829 for John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), Secretary to the Admiralty at that...
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