The son of the dramatist and his wife Louisa Mercier Holcroft; he was a clerk in the House of Commons before 1819, spent time in India, and was Paris correspondent for the Morning Herald and secretary of the Asiatic Society.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Holcroft Jr.:

Charles Lamb to James and Louisa Kenney, [16? October 1817] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 10 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 26 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)

Charles Lamb to Thomas Holcroft, Jr., [Autumn 1819] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)