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See also:CROFT, See also:SIR See also:HERBERT , See also:Bart. (1751–1816), See also:English author, was See also:born at See also:Dunster See also:Park, See also:Berkshire, on the 1st of See also:November 1751, son of Herbert Croft (see below) of Stifford, See also:Essex. He matriculated at University See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in See also:March 1771, and was subsequently entered at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn. He was called to the See also:bar, but in 1782 returned to Oxford with a view to preparing for See also:holy orders. In 1786 he received the vicarage of See also:Prittlewell, Essex, but he remained at Oxford for some years accumulating materials for a proposed English See also:dictionary. He was twice married, and on the See also:day after his second See also:wedding day he was imprisoned at See also:Exeter for See also:debt. He then retired to See also:Hamburg, and two years later his library was sold. He had succeeded in 1797 to the See also:title, but not to the estates, of a distant See also:cousin, Sir See also:John Croft, the See also:fourth See also:baronet. He returned to See also:England in 1800, but went abroad once more in 1802. He lived near See also:Amiens at a See also:house owned by See also:Lady See also:Mary See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, said to have been a daughter of the See also:earl of See also:Leven and See also:Melville. Later he removed to See also:Paris, where he died on the 26th of See also:April 1816. In some of his numerous See also:literary enterprises he had the help of See also:Charles See also:Nodier. Croft wrote the See also:Life of See also:Edward See also:Young inserted in See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's Lives of the Poets. In 178o he published Love and Madness, a See also:Story too true, in a See also:series of letters between Parties whose names could perhaps be mentioned were they less known or less lamented. , This See also:book, which passed through seven See also:editions, narrates the See also:passion of a clergyman named See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Hackman for Martha See also:Ray, See also:mistress of the earl of See also:Sandwich, who was shot by her See also:lover as she was leaving Covent See also:Garden in 1779 (see the See also:Case and See also:Memoirs of the See also:late Rev. Mr James Hackman, 1779). Love and Madness has permanent See also:interest because Croft inserted, among other See also:miscellaneous See also:matter, See also:information about See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Chatterton gained from letters which he obtained from the poet's See also:sister, Mrs See also:Newton, under false pretences, and used without See also:payment. See also:Robert See also:Southey, when about to publish an edition of Chatterton's See also:works for the benefit of his See also:family, published (November 1799) details of Croft's proceedings in the Monthly
' This is probably a See also:Greek See also:legend (cf. the See also:Attic See also:- VASE
- VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)
vase of about 500 B.C. in Journ. of See also:Hell. See also:Stud., 1898, p. 268).
See also:Review. To this attack Croft wrote a reply addressed to John See also:Nichols in the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, and afterwards printed separately as Chatterton and Love and Madness . . . (1800). This See also:tract evades the See also:main See also:accusation, and contains much abuse of Southey. Croft, however, supplied the material for the exhaustive See also:account of Chatterton in A. See also:Kippis's Biographia Britannica (vol. iv., 1789). In 1788 he addressed a See also:letter to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Pitt on the subject of a new dictionary. He criticized See also:Samuel Johnson's efforts, and in 1790 he claimed to have collected 11,000 words used by excellent authorities but omitted by Johnson. Two years later he issued proposals for a revised edition of Johnson's Dictionary, but subscribers were lacking and his 200 vols. of MS. remained unused. Croft was a See also:good See also:scholar and linguist, and the author of some curious books in See also:French.
The Love Letters of Mr H. and See also:Miss R. 1775–1779 were edited from Croft's book by Mr See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:Burgess (1895). See also John Nichols's Illustrations . . . (1828), v. 202-218.
End of Article: CROFT, SIR HERBERT
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