ary
dinner given to Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd.
1835. 'Landscape Illustrations to Moore's Irish Melodies, with Comments
for the Curious.' (Only one number appeared.) (Power.)
1837. 'A Memoir of Joseph Holt, General of the Irish Rebels in 1798.
From Holt's Autobiographical MS. in the possession of Sir W. Betham.'
(Colburn.)
'The Journal of a Tour through Ireland in 1644, translated from the
French of M. de la Boullaye le Gouz, assisted by J. Roche, Father Prout,
and Thomas Wright.' (Boone.) Dedicated to the elder Disraeli, "in
remembrance of much attention and kindness received from him many years
ago;" which dedication was cordially responded to by that author.
1839. 'The Popular Songs of Ireland.' (Colburn.)
1843. A Description of Rosamond's Bower, Fulham {18} (the residence of
Mr. Croker for eight years), with an inventory of the pictures,
furniture, curiosities, etc., etc. (Privately printed.)
It was here that Moore, Rogers, Maria Edgeworth, Lucy Aikin, "Father
Prout" (Mahony), Barham (Ingoldsby), Sydney Smith, Jerdan, Theodore Hook,
Lover, Planche, Lords Braybrooke, Strangford, and Northampton, Sir G.
Back, John Barrow, Sir Emerson Tennent, Wyon, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall, T.
Wright, and many others were the guests of Mr. Croker. One room in the
house was fitted up as a Museum, where such visitors delighted to
assemble.
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
Archaeological Association as one of the secretaries (1844-9) under the
presidency of Lord Albert Conyngham (the la
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