A Walk from London to FulhamCroker, Thomas Crofton
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A Walk from London to Fulham
Croker, Thomas Crofton
London (England) -- Description and travel
During subsequent years Mr. Croker produced several minor works on
antiquarian and popular subjects, some of them printed for private
circulation among his friends, and others as contributions to the
different societies of which he was a member. He died at his residence,
3, Gloucester Road, Old Brompton, on the 8th of August, 1854, aged 57,
and was buried in the private grave of his father-in-law, Mr. Francis
Nicholson, in the Brompton Cemetery, a sketch of which, by Mr. Fairholt,
appears in these pages. It should not be forgotten that Mr. Crofton
Croker was a contributor to the ‘Amulet,’ ‘Literary Souvenir,’ and
‘Friendship’s Offering,’ as well as (more extensively) to the ‘Literary
Gazette,’ when that journal possessed considerable influence under the
editorship of W. Jerdan. Mr. Croker also edited for the Camden and Percy
Societies (in the formation of which he took an active part) many works
of antiquarian interest. He was connected, also, with the British
Archæological Association as one of the secretaries (1844–9) under the
presidency of Lord Albert Conyngham (the late Lord Londesborough). That
recently-deceased nobleman was one of Mr. Croker’s most attached friends,
and opposite his Lordship’s pew in Grimston church, Yorkshire, a neat
marble tablet was erected bearing the following inscription: “In memory
of Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq., the amiable and accomplished author of
the ‘Fairy Legends of Ireland,’ and other works, Literary and
Antiquarian. This tablet is erected by his friend Lord Londesborough,
1855.”
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