Thomas Crofton Croker

(1798-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Croker, Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854 NRA: Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798-1854), Irish antiquary DNB: Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798-1854), antiquary LBT ID: ThCroke1854 VIAF ID: 8122395 LOC ID: n82086513	B/BAP: 1798-01-15 DIED: 1854-08-08
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Irish antiquary who published Researches in the South of Ireland (1824) and Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, 3 vols (1825-28). He wrote for the Literary Gazette.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Crofton Croker: Marianne Croker to William Jerdan, 2 August [1831] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 1: ¶ 13 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 18: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 36 Ch. 3: Fresh Start Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 17: Literary Characters Found 1: ¶ 28 Gerald Griffin Found 1: ¶ 2 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: ¶ 23 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 XIV Found 1: ¶ 25 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIII. Found 2: ¶ 20 ¶ 21 Chap. XXIV. Found 1: ¶ 59 Chap. XXIX. Found 1: ¶ 22 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) HARTLEY COLERIDGE Found 1: ¶ 3