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The Right Honourable
John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker, by William Owen
First Secretary to the Admiralty
In office
12 October 1809 – 2 May 1827
Prime MinisterSpencer Perceval
The Earl of Liverpool
Preceded byWilliam Wellesley Pole
Succeeded byGeorge Elliot
Member of Parliament
In office
22 June 1807 – 3 December 1832
ConstituencyAldeburgh (1830–1832)
Dublin University (1827–1830)
Aldeburgh (1826–1827)
Bodmin (1820–1826)
Yarmouth (1819–1820)
Athlone (1812–1818)
Downpatrick (1807–1812)
Personal details
Born20 December 1780
Galway, Ireland
Died10 August 1857 (aged 76)
Political partyTory
Alma materTrinity College Dublin

John Wilson Croker (20 December 1780 – 10 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author.

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John Wilson Croker (20 December 1780 – 10 August 1857) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and author. He was born in Galway, the only son of John Croker, the...

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but the criticisms were more ideological with them than with Keats. John Wilson Croker perpetuated the term "Cockney School" beyond the pages of Blackwood's...

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Guillotine

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Television Networks. Parker, John William (26 July 1834). "The Halifax Gibbet-Law". The Saturday Magazine (132): 32. Croker, John Wilson (1857). Essays on the...

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The Battles of Talavera

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The Battles of Talavera is an 1809 poem by the Irish writer John Wilson Croker. It was written in commemoration of the Battle of Talavera, where Sir Arthur...

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Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom

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Hadlow. L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker. Volume I (London, 1885), p....

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List of Athenaeum Club members

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known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London. John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder) James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837)...

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John Keats

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A particularly harsh review by John Wilson Croker appeared in the April 1818 edition of the Quarterly Review. John Gibson Lockhart writing in Blackwood's...

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Quarterly Review

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Early contributors included Secretaries of the Admiralty John Wilson Croker and Sir John Barrow, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, poet-novelist Sir Walter...

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List of stutterers

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original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011. Bloy, Marjorie. "John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)". A Web of English History. Blumenthal, Ralph (26 December...

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Louis John Jennings

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1880 The Millionaire- 1883 The Croker papers. The correspondence and diaries of the late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... secretary to the Admiralty...

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Decimus Burton

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Victoria); the Duchess of Kent; William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, John Wilson Croker, and Sir Humphry Davy. The Burtons' London mansion, The Holme of Regent's...

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Lord Byron

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Moore, Thomas (1829) [1851]. John Wilson Croker (ed.). The Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals. Vol. I. John Murray. pp. 154, 676. Retrieved...

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List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

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which led to Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker (Tory) being declared duly elected. Parliamentary Election Results...

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Frankenstein

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to see "more productions ... from this author". On the other hand, John Wilson Croker, writing anonymously in the Quarterly Review, although conceding that...

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Oatcake

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of His Tour to the Hebrides. Volume 3 by James Boswell. Edited by John Wilson Croker. Publisher: Derby & Jackson, New York, 1858. Page 11. Elizabeth Foyster;...

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Adonais

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"nameless worm" and "noteless blot" who is the anonymous (now known to be John Wilson Croker, not the editor, William Gifford) and highly critical reviewer of...

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Croker Bay

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is 32 km (20 mi) to the east. Croker's Bay was named by William Edward Parry in honour of John Wilson Croker. "Croker Bay". Geographical Names Data Base...

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Benjamin Disraeli

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the Reform Bill. He contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for...

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Wilfrid Barrow

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Sir Wilfrid John Wilson Croker Barrow, 5th Baronet (28 December 1897 – 11 January 1960), was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician. He was the...

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Thomas Crofton Croker

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the estate was managed by his distant relative (or of no relation), John Wilson Croker who was then Secretary of the Admiralty, and who procured him a position...

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Life of Samuel Johnson

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1831, John Wilson Croker produced a new edition which was swiftly condemned in reviews by Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle. The weakness of Croker's notes...

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1832 United Kingdom general election

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of the Opposition in the House of Commons was Sir Robert Peel, Bt. John Wilson Croker had used the term "conservative" in 1830, but the Tories at the time...

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