John Wilson Croker

Life
1780-1857; b. Waterford; ed. TCD; English Bar, 1800; Irish bar, 1802; Munster Circuit, 1807; MP for Downpatrick, 1807, and later for Dublin University and some English constituencies; acted as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1808; friend of Canning; founding contributor to Quarterly Review, 1809); Sec. for Admiralty from 1809; spoke against Reform Bill and resigned office, 1830; introduced word ‘conservatives’, 1830; best known as author of scathing review of Keats’s ‘Endymion’; prob. author of Familiar Epistle[s] on the [Present] State of the Stage in Ireland, a verse broadside of 1803, addressed to Richard Daly [Frederick Jones acc. Sir John Gilbert, History of Dublin, ‘Werburgh St.’]; also thought to be author of Metropolis (See also Andrew B. Carmichael, supra); his A Sketch of the State of Ireland Past and Present (1808) was an important pro-Emancipationist contribution to the Emancipation campaign; in Dublin, Croker was often mistaken for other satirists; his Familiar Letters is said to have caused the death of an actor impugned in it [acc. Gilbert]; issued reliable edition of Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson (1831), though Macauley, who detested him ‘more than cold boiled veal’, wrote a slashing review of it; Croker attacked Macauley’s History; instrumental in formation of committee for erection of Nelson’s Pillar; wrote vitriolic attacks on Lady Morgan from a hyper-conservative standpoint; caricatured in Peacock’s Melincourt (1817), Lady Morgan’s Florence MacCarthy (1818), and Disraeli’s Coningsby (1844) as Rigby; a founding member of Athenaeum Club, London, 1824; edited the letters of Lady Suffolk and Horace Walpole; d. Hampton, Middlesex. CAB DNB PI JMC DIB DIW DIL RAF OCEL FDA DUB OCIL

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Works
Tea Table Conversation, an epistle to the author of Familiar Epistles ... by a Student of TCD [John Wilson Croker] (Dublin: J. Parry 1804), iv, 51pp.; Familiar Epistles to Frederick J-s [Jones], Esq. on the Present State of the Irish Stage (Dublin: John Barlow 1804; Dublin: M. N. Mahon; London: Vernor & Hood 1805; Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell 1805, 1806), and Do. (London: Livermore & Robinson 1875); Dublin run Mad! or, Remarks on Cutchacutchoo, and its History: with a poetical address to the real Innocents of Dublin [... &c.] (Dublin 1805); Jack in a Passion, or the Critic Criticised [In reply to Familiar Epistles to F. J. Esq. (Dublin 1805); [?Croker,] Histrionic Epistles (Dublin 1807); An Intercepted Letter from J- T-, Esq. ... to his friend in Dublin [&c.]. [6th Edn.] (Dublin: M. N. Mahon 1804, 1805), v, 42pp.; The Amazoniad; or, Figure and Fashion: Scuffle in High Life [with] Notes Critical and Historical [2nd Edn.], 2 Pts. (Dublin: John King 1806), with adds; he battles of Talavera: A Poem [5th Edn.] (London: John Murray 1810), 39pp., and Do. [10th Edn.] (London 1810; other edns. 1812, 1816).

Miscellaneous, Editions & translations, Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the Court of England in 1626 (London: John Murray 1819), xx, 154pp., 8o.; Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Croker, rev. John Wright [notes by Scott, Croker, Chambers et al.], 5 vols. (London: John Murray 1831), and Do. [rep. edns.] (Murray 1835, 1848, [Bohn Edn. 1853, 1859], 1860 1898); Elements of Geography (London: John Murray 1829), 94pp. [for children]; Progressive Geography for Children (London: John Murray 1847); Stories ... from the History of England, from the Conquest to the Revolution (London: John Murray 1817, other edns. 1840, &c.); A Letter on the Fittest Style and Situation for the Wellington Testimonial, about to be erected in Dublin: addressed to John Leslie Foster, Esq. (Dublin: J. Cumming & M. N. Mahon; London: J. Murray 1815) [with plan]. 51pp.; A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present [2nd Edn.] (Dublin: M. N. Mahon 1808), 63pp.; Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution.. from The Quarterly Review (London: John Murray 1857), x, 571pp. [ded. signed T.C.D.,] History of the Guillotine [...] Revised from the Quarterly Review [... &c.] (London: John Murray 1853), viii, 88pp.; Substance of the Speech of John Wilson Croker, Esq. in the House of Commons, on Monday, 4th May 1819; on the Roman Catholic Question (London: John Murray 1819), 86pp.; T Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second, from his accession to the death of Queen Caroline, 2 vols.(London 1848), and Do., 3 vols. (London: Bickers & Son 1884). Also, The Works of Alexander Pope, 10 vols. (London:John Murray 1871-89) [from papers of J. W. C.].

Correspondence, Correspondence between the Right Hon. J. W. Croker and the Right Hon. Lord John Russell on Some Passages of ‘Moore’s Diary’ with a Postscript by Mr. Croker, Explanatory of Mr. Moore’s Acquaintance and Correspondence with Him (London: John Murray 1854), 35pp.; Louis J. Jennings, ed., The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable J. W. Croker [2nd rev. edn.], 3 vols. (London; John Murray: London 1884, 1885); Bernard Pool, ed., The Croker Papers: 1808-1857 [abridged] (London: Batsford [1967]), vii, 277pp., pls. & ports.

Related literature, R. N. O. [Robert N. Owenson,] Theatrical Tears; a poem occasioned by Familiar Epistles to Frederick J[one]s (Dublin 1804); S. O., [i.e. Sydney Owenson], A few Reflections occasioned by the perusal of a work, entitled: "Familiar Epistles to F. J[one]s, Esq." (Dublin 1804); Remarks on the Right Hon. J. W. Croker’s Review of the Memoirs of Thomas Moore, in "The Quarterly" by Nemesis [pseud.] (London 1855), 12o.; The Croaker: and Venus angry: addressed to the author of Cutchacutchoo. To which is prefixed a Letter from John Wilson Croker [2nd. Edn.] (Dublin: C. Downes 1805), 20pp.

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Criticism
Myron F. Brightfield, John Wilson Croker (London 1940).

Seamus Deane, ‘The Literary Myths of the Revival’, in Celtic Revivals (Faber 1985; pb. 1987), p.30.

Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby ([1844] Lehmann, ed. 1948), pp 15, 21, 28, 73-4, 247. 265f, 368.

Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, The Romantic Period, 1789-1850, Vol 1 (1980).

The Croker Papers 1808-1857, ed. Bernard Pool (Batsford 1967), 277pp.

A. N. Jeffares, Anglo-Irish Literature (London: Macmillan 1982), p.97.

G. C. Duggan, The Stage Irishman (Dublin: Talbot 1937), p. 181.

Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 1, selects extract from An Intercepted Letter (1804) and another from A Sketch of the State of Ireland &c (1808).

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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography [biog. as above]: contrib. to Quarterly Review, [fnd.] 1809, and famous for scathing criticism of Keats’s "Endymion" [but see William Gifford, DNB]; introduced the word ‘conservatives’, 1830; edited Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson (1831); criticised by Macauley and attacked Macauley’s History (1849) in return; other works incl. An Intercepted Letter from Canton (1804); and Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution (1857); he is the original of Rigsby in Disraeli’s Coningsby (1844).

Charles Read, ed., A Cabinet of Irish Literature (3 vols., 1876-78), b. Galway [but see Notes, infra], ed. TCD; Familiar Epistle[s]; 1807 [sic], MP Downpatrick, and subsequently many constituencies including Dublin [Univ.] and some English; An Intercepted Letter from Canton, satire on Dublin; Songs of Trafalgar; Sketch of Ireland Past and Present; parliamentary antagonist of Lord Macauley; retired when the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed; editor of Quarterly Review; his attack on Macauley’s History of England was described as Sydney Smith as an attempt at murder which ended in suicide. He is alluded to in Vanity Fair (Thackeray) and Coningsby (Disraeli) as the Marquis of Hereford’s factotum [Rigby].

Irish Book Lover [Vol. XIV], p.123, offers a correction to the received view and suggests that J. W. Croker was born in Waterford, not Galway, on the authority of his [Croker’s] father, cited in Alumni Dublinensis by Burchaell.

Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature (Washington: Catholic Univ. of America 1904), gives extract from The History of the Guillotine.

Arthur Ponsonby [author of English Diaries from the 16th to the 20th centuries, Methuen 1923], Scottish and Irish Diaries &c (1927), contains extracts from J. W. Croker [pp.170-73].

Roy Foster, Modern Ireland (London: Allen Lane 1988), bio-note, p.305.

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Notes
The Nation was denounced by Croker as being full of ‘the deadliest rancour, the most audacious falsehoods, and the most incendiary provocation to war’. (Quoted in Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Davis; cited in review of Aubane Hist. Soc. rep. edn., reviewed in Books Ireland, Nov. 2000, p.322.)

Emancipate? John Wilson Croker was ‘indisposed’ and absent from Emancipation division in the House [see Madden, under Historical Notice of the Penal Laws against Roman Catholics, 1847, 1865; and RX].

Conservative: John Wilson Croker coined the term ‘Conservative’, ‘We now are, as we always have been, decidely and conscientiously attached to what is called the tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.’ (Oxford Dict. of Quotations).

David Willetts, On the second page of his short account of Modern Conservatism (q.d.), David Willetts, formerly directory of the Centre for Policy studies and now and MP, invokes the question in Disraeli’s Coningsby, "What will you conserve?". I am not sure he answers it ... &c. (Times Literary Supplement, 9 Oct. 1992).

W. M. Thackeray remarked on the Corkonians awareness of things literary including ‘Mr Croker’s last article in the Quarterly', an allusion that possibly refers to John Wilson Croker rather than Thomas Crofton Croker. (See Irish Sketchbook, 1842; Blackstaff, rep. edn. 1985, p. 84.)

Banim's Croker: John Wilson Croker is a character in John Banim’s Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century [1828] [SEE IF].

Coningsby(s): Note that the DNB lists a number of "Coningsbys" associated with Ireland, 1) Archb. of Armagh Edmund (f. 1478); 2) Thomas, Earl C. (1656-1729), a strong Whig, wounded at the Boyne; created Baron C. of Clanbrassil, 1692; English Baron and Earl, 1719; involved in Peace of Utrecht.

British Library holds [1] The Amazoniad; or, Figure and fashion: a scuffle in high life. With notes critical and historical, etc. (Second edition, with additions.) [by John Wilson Croker.]. 2 pt. John King: Dublin 1806. 12o.[2] Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the Court of England in 1626. Translated with notes [and a life of Bassompierre, by the Right Hon. J. W. Croker]. [another copy.]. xx, 154pp. John Murray: London 1819. 8o. [3] Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides … With notes by Scott, Croker, Chambers and others.. 2 vol. A. Constable & Co.: London 1898. 8o. [4] Boswell’s Life of Johnson: including their Tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... A new edition, thorougly revised, with much additional matter. With portraits.. xxiv, 14, 874pp.. John Murray: London 1860 [1859, 60]. 8o. [5] Boswell’s Life of Johnson: including their Tour to the Hebrides. By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker ... A new edition, thoroughly revised, with much additional matter. With portraits. [another copy.]. xxiv, 874pp. John Murray: London 1848. 8o. [6] The Life of Samuel Johnson.. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides ... A new edition. With numerous additions and notes, by John Wilson Croker. [With portraits.] [another edition.] To which are added anecdotes by Hawkins, Piozzi, Murphy, Tyers, Reynolds, Steevens, &c., and notes by various hands. [Edited by J. W. Croker, revised by John Wright.] [another copy.]. 5 vol. John Murray: London 1831. 8o. 10 vol. John Murray: London 1835. 8o. [7] The Life of Samuel Johnson.. including A Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides ... With numerous additions and notes, by the Right Hon. J. Wilson Croker ... revised and enlarged under his direction.. by John Wright ... Illustrated with ... engravings, etc.. 10 vol. H. G. Bohn: London 1859. 8o. [8] The Life of Samuel Johnson.. including A Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides ... New edition, with numerous additions and notes, by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker ... To which are added, two supplementary volumes of Johnsoniana, by Hawkins, Piozzi ... and others. And notes by various hands. Also, upwards of fifty engraved illustrations.. 10 vol. H. G. Bohn: London 1853. 8o. [9] A Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review, in reply to certain strictures in that publication on the Rev. Dr. Keith’s "Evidence of Prophecy." MS. notes [by J. W. Croker].. 68pp. W. Whyte & Co.: Edinburgh 1836. 8o. [10] John Wilson Croker. [With a portrait.]. xiii, 464pp.. University of California Press: Berkeley 1940. 8o. [11] Elements of Geography; for the use of young children. By the author of "Stories from the History of England." [The introduction signed: J. W. C., i.e. Right Hon. John W. Croker.] Third edition. 94pp. John Murray: London 1829. 12o. 96pp. John Murray: London 1835. 12o. [12] Progressive Geography for Children. By the author of "Stories for Children." Fourth edition, revised. [The introduction signed: J. W. C., i.e. Right Hon. John W. Croker.]. 72pp. John Murray: London 1847. 12o. [13] Stories selected from the History of England, from the Conquest to the Revolution. For children. Fourth edition. [The preface signed: J. W. C., i.e. Right Hon. John Wilson Croker.]. vi, 180pp. John Murray: London 1818. 18o. [14] Stories selected from the History of England, from the Conquest to the Revolution. For children. Third edition. [The preface signed: J. W. C., i.e. Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker.]. [180pp.] John Murray: London. 1817. 12o. [15] Tales of a Grandfather on English History; being a collection of stories taken from the History of England, by J. Wilson C. [i.e. J. W. Croker.] Continued to Queen Victoria by Pearson. xvi, 264pp. J. H. Truchy: Paris 1840. 12o. [16] A Letter on the Fittest Style and Situation for the Wellington Testimonial, about to be erected in Dublin. Addressed to John Leslie Foster, Esq. [With a plan.]. 51pp. J. Cumming & M. N. Mahon: Dublin; J. Murray: London; London printed 1815. 8o. [17] [A manuscript catalogue of tracts relating to the French Revolution formerly in the possession of J. W. Croker.]. [1850?] fol. [18] [A manuscript catalogue of works relating to the French Revolution formerly in the possession of J. W. Croker.]. [1850?] fol. [19] A Reply to the Speech of J. W. Croker, Esq. in the House of Commons ... on the Roman Catholic question, with a summary of the Qualification Laws.. 59pp. Hatchard; Clarke: London 1819. 8o. [20] [A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present.] [Fourth edition, with additions.] A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present ... A new edition, revised by the author. Eighth edition. MS. notes. [another edition.]. 63pp. 1808. 8o. 68pp. John Murray: London 1822. 8o. 65pp. 1822. 8o. 32pp. John Murray: London 1885. 8o. [21] A Sketch of the state of Ireland, past and present. [by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker.] MS. note. [another edition.] MS. notes. Second London edition. 63pp. Dublin 1808. 8o. 64pp. London 1808. 8o. 64pp. 1808. 8o. [22] A sketch of the state of Ireland, past and present. (Second edition.) [by J. W. Croker.]. Dublin: M. N. Mahon 1808. 63pp. 8o. [23] Anecdotes pour les enfants, tirées de l’histoire d’Angleterre ... [by J. W. Croker.] Traduites de l’anglais par Madam Sophie Tulloch, etc.. Aberdeen: A. Brown & Co., [1853]. 205pp. 16 cm. [24] Correspondence between the Right Hon. J. W. Croker and the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, on some passages of ‘Moore’s Diary.’ With a postscript by Mr. Croker, explanatory of Mr. Moore’s acquaintance and correspondence with him.. 35pp. John Murray: London 1854. 8o. [25] Essays on the Early Period of the French Revolution.. Reprinted from ‘The Quarterly Review,’ with additions and corrections.. x, 571pp. John Murray: London 1857. 8o. [26] Familiar Epistles to Frederick J-s [Jones], Esq. on the present state of the Irish stage. [In verse. The dedication signed: T. C. D., i.e. J. W. Croker.] [another copy.] Second edition, with considerable additions. [another copy.] Third edition, with considerable additions. Fourth edition, with considerable additions. [another edition.] Familiar Epistles to Frederick E. Jones, Esq. on the present state of the Irish stage. [by the Right Hon. John W. Croker.] Fifth edition. [another copy.] [another edition.] The Familiar Epistles ... These epistles were written in 1804, and addressed to Frederick Jones ... on the inefficiency of the actors; and now ... Walter Donaldson, Esq., presents them to the public, with remarks from personal knowledge. xix, 78pp. John Barlow: Dublin 1804. 12o. 122pp. John Barlow: Dublin 1804. 12o. 122pp. Printed by M. N. Mahon: Dublin; sold by Vernor & Hood: London 1805. 12o 178pp. Graisberry & Campbell: Dublin 1805. 12o. 110pp. Graisberry & Campbell: Dublin, 1806. 12o. 59pp. Livermore & Robinson: London, [1875.] 8o. [27] History of the Guillotine ... Revised from the ‘Quarterly Review,’ etc.. viii, 88pp. John Murray: London 1853. 8o. [28] [Lamartine’s Refutation of the Quarterly Review. Escape of Louis-Philippe.] Louis-Philippe et la révolution de février. République de la Quarterly Review à M. de Lamartine, contenant des rectifications et additions qui complètent la relation authentique du départ du Roi et de la famille royale au 24 février 1848. (Extrait de la Revue Britannique.). 32pp. Paris 1850. 8o. [29] Révolution de février 1848. Revue critique de quelques-uns des ouvrages publiés récemment sur l’histoire de cette époque. Départ de Louis-Philippe au 24 février. Relation authentique de ce qui est arrivé au Roi et à sa famille depuis leur départ des Tuileries jusqu’à leur débarquement en Angleterre. (Extrait de la Revue britannique.) [Translation of an article which originally appeared anonymously in the "Quarterly Review."]. 86pp. Paris 1850. 8o. [30] Resolutions moved by Mr. Croker, on the report of the Reform Bill. March 14 1832.. 21pp. John Murray: London 1832. 8o. [31] Stories selected from the History of England ... Fourteenth edition, etc. [The preface signed: J. W. C., i.e. Right Hon. John W. Croker.] Seventeenth edition, etc.. xii, 205pp. John Murray: London 1847. 16o. xii, 184pp. John Murray: London 1908. 8o. [32] Substance of the Speech of John Wilson Croker, Esq. in the House of Commons, on Monday, 4th May 1819; on the Roman Catholic question. 86pp. John Murray: London 1819. 8o. [33] The battles of Talavera. [by J. W. Croker.] A poem ... Fifth edition. London: John Murray 1810. 39pp. 8o. [34] The Croker Papers. The correspondence and diaries of the late Right Honourable J. W. Croker ... Edited by Louis J. Jennings ... With portrait. [another copy.] The Croker Papers, etc. Second edition, revised, etc. [another copy.]. 3 vol. John Murray: London 1884. 8o. London, 1884. 8o. 3 vol. John Murray: London 1885. 8o. [35] The Croker papers: 1808-1857. (New and abridged ed.) Edited by Bernard Pool.. London: Batsford, [1967]. vii, 277 p.: plates; ports. 25 cm. [36] The Speech of the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, on the question that "The Reform Bill do pass," Tuesday, 22nd September 1831. Printed from the Mirror of Parliament.. 42pp. John Murray: London 1831. 8o. [37] The Speech of the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, on the Reform Question, on Friday, March 4 1831.. 24pp. John Murray: London, 1831. 8o. [38] Two letters on Scottish affairs, etc. [39] Collection de matériaux pour l’histoire de la Révolution de France depuis. 1787 jusqu’à ce jour. Bibliographie des journaux. Par M. D ... ... .s. [The preface signed: Deschiens.] [another copy.] MS. notes [by J. W. Croker].. xxiv, 645pp. Paris 1829. 8o. [40] Dublin run mad!!! or, remarks on Cutchecutchoo [a satire on the game of Hide and Seek; the dedication of the second edition being subscribed: F. T. C.] and its history, etc. Second edition. With a poetical address to the real Innocents of Dublin. [another copy.] [another copy.] Dublin run Mad!!! or, Remarks on Cutchacutchoo, and its History: with a poetical address to the real Innocents of Dublin, etc.. Dublin 1805. 12o. Dublin, 1805. 12o. Dublin 1805. 12o. Dublin 1805. 12o. [41] Jack in a passion, or the Critic criticised. [In reply to Familiar Epistles to F. J[one]s Esq., etc.]. Dublin 1805. 12o. [42] A Key to the Orders in Council [respecting trade with French ports, etc. 7 Jan. 1807-21 April 1812. By the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker]. [another copy.] [another copy.]. 19pp. John Murray: London 1812. 8o. [43] Six Speeches delivered in the House of Commons at the close of the Debate upon the Reform Bill [22 Sept. 1831].. 52pp. C. J. G. & F. Rivington: London 1831. 12o. [44] What next? or the Peers and the third time of asking. [by Sir Henry Rich.] Second edition. [another copy.] Copious MS. notes [by J. W. Croker].. 82pp. J. Ridgway and Sons: London 1837. 8o. [45] Histrionic Epistles. [by the Right Hon. J. W. Croker?]. Dublin 1807. 12o. [46] Croker’s Boswell and Boswell. Studies in the "Life of Johnson.". viii, 308pp. Chapman & Hall: London 1880. 8o. [47] Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution: containing 1. A narrative of the journey of Louis XVI. and his family to Varennes by Madame Royale, Duchess of Angouleme. 2. A narrative of a journey to Bruxelles and Coblentz by Monsieur, now Louis XVIII. 3. Private memoirs of what passed in the Temple from the imprisonment of the Royal Family to the death of the Dauphin, by Madame Royale, Duchess of Angouleme. With historical and biographical illustrations by the translator [the Right Hon. J. W. Croker].. London 1823. 8o. [48] The Guillotine. [A review by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker of two French works on the guillotine. An offprint of an article in "The Quarterly Review" of December 1843, with additional pages of illustrations bearing manuscript notes by the author in preparation for his work "History of the Guillotine" 1853.]. 48pp. [London 1853?] 8o. [49] Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second, from his accession to the death of Queen Caroline. Edited, from the original manuscript by J. W. Croker. [another edition.]. 2 vol. London 1848. 8o. 3 vol. Bickers & Son: London 1884. 8o. [50] Letters of Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey. With a Memoir, and Illustrative Notes [by the Right Hon. John W. Croker]. [another copy.]. London, 1821. 8o. [51] The History of Cutchacutchoo. [by John W. Croker. A reply to "Cutchacutchoo; or, the Jostling of the innocents" by F. T. C.] [another issue.] The History of Cutchacutchoo. [by the Right Hon. John W. Croker. A reply to "Cutchacutchoo, or the Jostling of the innocents" by F. T. C.]. 22pp. M. N. Mahon: Dublin 1805. 12o. Dublin 1805. 12o. [52] Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her second husband the Hon. George Berkeley. From 1712 to 1767. With historical, biographical, and explanatory notes. [Edited by J. W. Croker.] [another copy.] Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, etc.. 2 vol. John Murray: London 1824. 8o. 2 vol. John Murray: London 1824. 8o. [53] A sketch of the state of Ireland, past and present. 5th ed., with additions. Dublin: M.N. Mahon 1810. 63p; 22cm [54] An Answer to Familiar Epistles to F. J-s, Esq., on the present state of the Irish Stage. [Verses, subscribed Frederick E. J-s, i.e. F. E. Jones.] Second edition. 24pp. Dublin 1804. 12o. Dublin 1804. 12o. [55] Lamartine’s Refutation of the Quarterly Review. Escape of Louis-Philippe. [An anonymous article, by J. W. Croker, reprinted from "The Quarterly Review," replying to Lamartine’s "Refutation de quelques calomnies contre la République," in his journal "Le Conseiller du peuple."]. 16pp. William Clowes: London 1850. 8o. [56] Answers to Mr. Macaulay’s criticism in the Edinburgh Review on Mr. Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Selected from Blackwood’s Magazine. (By Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker.) Second edition. London 1856. 8o. [57] Samuel Johnson, LL.D. [An essay on J. W. Croker’s edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson.] (Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, by H. L. Piozzi.) [another edition.] Lord Macaulay’s Essay on Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Edited with notes by F. Storr. New edition. 2 pt. 1856.. 56pp. 1875.. 56pp. [1882.] [58] New Picture of Paris. MS. notes [by J. W. Croker].. 2 vol. Dublin 1800. 8o. [59] The Political Future of England. Translated [by H. Barrow?] with an introduction and notes [by the Right Hon. J. W. Croker]. [another copy.] Of the Political Future of England. Translated with an introduction and notes. [another edition.] The Political Future of England ... From the French [by H. Barrow? revised by the Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker].. London 1856. 8o. London 1856. 8o. London 1856. 8o. [60] Remarks on the Right Hon. J. W. Croker’s Review of the Memoirs of Thomas Moore, in "The Quarterly." By Nemesis.. London 1855. 12o. [61] Theatrical Tears; a poem occasioned by Familiar Epistles to Frederick J[one]s. [by R. N. O., i.e. Robert N. Owenson.] [another copy.]. Dublin 1804. 12o. [62] A few Reflections occasioned by the perusal of a work, entitled: "Familiar Epistles to F. J[one]s, Esq.," etc. [The Dedication subscribed S. O., i.e. Sydney Owenson, afterwards Lady Morgan.] [another copy.]. Dublin 1804. 12o. [63] 1. Napoleon in Exile; or, a Voice from St. Helena ... By B. E. O’M. ... 2. Memorial de Ste. Hélène ... Par le Comte de Las Cases. 3. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de France sous Napoléon, écrits à Sainte-Hélène sous le dicta [sic] de l’Empereur ... tom 1, dicté au Général Gourgaud. 4. Mélanges historiques, vol. 1, dicté au Comte de Montholon. [A review by J. W. Croker of the works mentioned, extracted from the Quarterly Review, vol. 28, 219-264pp.] [another edition.] An Answer to O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena.. [London 1823.] 8o. New York 1823. 12o. [64] The Works of Alexander Pope. New edition. Including ... unpublished letters and other new materials. Collected in part by the late Rt. Hon. J. W. Croker. With introduction and notes by W. Elwin [and W. J. Courthope. The Life of Pope. By W. J. Courthope.] ... With portraits and other illustrations. [another copy.] The Works of Alexander Pope, etc. [another copy.] The Works of Alexander Pope, etc.. 10 vol. John Murray: London, 1871-89. 8o. 10 vol. London 1871-89. 8o. 10 vol. London 1871-89. 8o. [65] The Croaker: and Venus angry: addressed to the author of Cutchacutchoo. To which is prefixed a Letter from John Wilson Croker. Second edition. 20pp. C. Downes: Dublin 1805. 12o. [66] Remarks in refutation of an article in the 118th number of the Quarterly Review, on Lord John Russell’s speech at Stroud.. London: James Ridgeway & Sons 1838. 79pp. 8o. [67] OEuvres oratoires de Mirabeau, ou recueil de ses discours, rapports, addresses, opinions, discussions, reparties, etc., à l’Assemblée Nationale; précédé d’une notice historique sur sa vie [signed, H. M.], et terminé par l’oraison funèbre que Cerutti prononça aux funérailles de l’orateur, etc. MS. note [by J. W. Croker].. 2 tom. Paris 1819. 8o. [68] Mémoires authentiques de Maximilien Robespierre ... Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères, etc. [A review, by J. W. Croker, extracted from the Quarterly Review.] Copious MS. notes [by the author].. 64pp. [1835.] 8o. [69] An Intercepted Letter from J- T-, Esq. ... to his friend in Dublin, etc. [by John Wilson Croker.] (Sixth edition.) Seventh edition. v, 42pp. M. N. Mahon: Dublin 1805. 12o. Dublin 1805. 12o. [70] An Intercepted letter from J-T-, Esq. [i.e. J. W. Croker] ... to his friend in Dublin, Ireland. Second edition. [A satire upon the City of Dublin.] Third edition. Fifth edition. Dublin 1804. 12o. Dublin 1804. 12o. An Intercepted Letter from J-T-Esq ... to his friend in Dublin. [by John Wilson Croker.]. v, 42pp. M. N. Mahon: Dublin 1804. 12o. [72] The Battles of Talavera, a poem. [by J. W. Croker.] Sixth edition, corrected, with some additions. Eighth edition. With some additions. [another copy.] The Battles of Talavera ... Eighth edition, etc. [by John Wilson Croker.] [another copy.] L.P. Ninth edition. To which are added other poems. Tenth edition. London 1810. 8o. London 1810. 8o. London 1810. 4o. London 1812. 4o. London 1816. 8o. [73] Tea Table Conversation, an epistle to the author of Familiar Epistles (John Wilson Croker) ... By a Student of T. C. D.. iv, 51pp. J. Parry: Dublin, 1804. 12o.

Cathach Books (1996 / 97) lists Familiar Epistle to Frederick J-S Esquire on the Present State of the Irish Stage (Dublin: Barlow 1804), 78pp.

Belfast Linenhall Library holds Familiar Epistle to Frederick Jones Esq. on the Present State of the Irish Stage, verse (Dublin 1804). Belfast Central Library holds Tracts Upon the Union (1831); also biographies by D. O. Madden, (n.d.), and Sir J. [?W] Smyth, John Wilson Croker (1876).

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