Background
John Wilson Croker was born on December 20, 1780 in Galway, England, United Kingdom.
John Wilson Croker was born on December 20, 1780 in Galway, England, United Kingdom.
After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1802 John Wilson Croker was called to the Irish bar.
In 1807 John Wilson Croker entered Parliament, in 1808 he served as deputy chief secretary for Ireland, and from 1810 to 1830 as secretary to the Admiralty, an office he filled with honesty and devotion. A vigorous opponent of the Reform Bill, he retired from Parliament when it was passed in 1832; he broke off his friendship with Sir Robert Peel when the latter advocated repeal of the corn laws. Croker was long a contributor to The Quarterly Review. His political articles were often bitter and violent, and his literary judgment was biased by any work that offended his arch conservatism, which extended to the aesthetic field.
John Wilson Croker entered Parliament in 1806 and was taken up by Canning, becoming a strong Tory supporter, though sympathetic to both catholic emancipation and a measure of parliamentary reform.
His political articles were often bitter and violent, and his literary judgment was biased by any work that offended his arch conservatism, which extended to the aesthetic field.