dots-menu
×
Home  »  library  »  BIOS  »  John Wilson Croker (1780–1857)

C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Wilson Croker (1780–1857)

Croker, John Wilson. An Irish miscellaneous writer; born in Galway, Dec. 20, 1780; died at Old Brompton, Aug. 10, 1857. His capacity for satire revealed itself in ‘An Intercepted Letter from Canton,’ and his ‘Songs of Trafalgar’ spread his fame as a poet. Macaulay’s review of his edition of Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson,’ and his counterblast upon Macaulay’s. ‘History of England,’ form one of the famous literary duels. He was a Tory politician of intense fervor, permanently resigning his seat in Parliament because of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832.