The son of William Cruikshank (d. 1802); educated at the Middle Temple, he was a neighbour of Coleridge at Nether Stowey where he was Lord Egremont's land-agent; he married Anne Budé in 1795.

REFERENCES TO John Cruikshank:

Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [19 or 26 July 1797] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)