Croker, John Wilson

Croker, John Wilson
(1780-1857)
   Politician and miscellaneous writer. Ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, he entered Parliament as a Tory, and was appointed to various offices, including the Secretaryship of the Admiralty, which he held for 20 years. He was one of the founders of the Quarterly Review, and wrote some of its most violent political articles and reviews. He pub. in 1831 an ed. of Boswell's Life of Johnson. He also wrote some historical essays and satirical pieces.

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  • Крокер John-Wilson — (Croker) английский политический деятель и писатель (1780 1857), в 1817 30 г. член парламента, где примыкал к ториям. Составил себе большую известность едкими политич. сатирами в Quarterly Review . Написал: Familiar Epistles , An intercepted… …   Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона

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