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See also:CROKER, 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 CROFTON (1798-1854) , Irish See also:antiquary and humorist, was See also:born in See also:Cork on the 15th of See also:January 1798. He was apprenticed to a See also:merchant, but in 1819, through the See also:interest of See also:John See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson Croker, who was, however, no relation of his, he became a clerk in the See also:Admiralty. See also:Moore was indebted to him in the See also:production of his Irish Melodies for " many curious fragments of See also:ancient See also:poetry." In 1825 he produced his most popular See also:book, the See also:Fairy Legends and Traditions of the See also:South of See also:Ireland, which he followed up by the publication of his Legends of the Lakes (1829), his Adventures of Barney Mahoney (1852), and an edition of the Popular Songs of Ireland (1839). In 1827 he was made a member of the Irish See also:Academy; in 1839 and 184o he helped to found the See also:Camden and See also:Percy See also:Societies, and in 1843 the See also:British Archaeological Association. He wrote Narratives Illustrative of the Contests in Ireland in 1641 and 1688 (1841), for the Camden Society, See also:Historical Songs of Ireland, &c. (1841), for the Percy Society, and several other See also:works. He was also a member of the See also:Hakluyt and the Antiquarian Society. He died in See also:London on the 8th of See also:August 1854.
End of Article: CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON (1798-1854)
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