| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Croker, John Wilson |
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(kr ´k r) (KEY) , 1780–1857, British Tory politician and author, b. Ireland. He was a member of Parliament from 1807 to 1832 and secretary of the admiralty from 1810 to 1830. The most famous of his regular contributions as a critic to the Quarterly Review was his virulent attack (1818) on Keats’s Endymion. Croker’s best work was his careful edition (1831) of Boswell’s Life of Johnson. | 1 | | See Croker Papers (ed. by L. J. Jennings, 3 vol., 1884; repr. 1972). | 2 |
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