Sir Herbert Croft, fifth baronet

(1751-1816)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Croft, Herbert, Sir, 1751-1816 NRA: Croft, Sir Herbert (1751-1816) 5th Baronet Vicar of Prittlewell Author DNB: Croft, Sir Herbert, fifth baronet (1751-1816), writer and lexicographer LBT ID: HeCroft1816 VIAF ID: 64335678 LOC ID: n85099816	B/BAP: 1751-11-01 DIED: 1816-04-25
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English poet and antiquary who published a collection of Thomas Chatterton's letters, Love and Madness (1780).
REFERENCES TO Sir Herbert Croft, fifth baronet: Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ 7 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 73 Chapter VIII. Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Chapter III. Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 1