John Wilson Croker

(1780-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857 NRA: Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857), politician and essayist DNB: Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857), politician and writer LBT ID: JoCroke1857 VIAF ID: 51766984 LOC ID: n79045428	B/BAP: 1780-12-20 DIED: 1857-08-10
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Secretary of the Admiralty (1810) and writer for the Quarterly Review; he edited an elaborate edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1831).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “Leigh Hunt's Rimini” in Quarterly Review 15 (January 1816) 475-81 “Keats’s Endymion” in Quarterly Review 19 (April 1818) 204-08