John Wilson Croker ( 1780 - 1857 )

Birth: Galway, Ireland (20 December 1780) Death: 10 August 1857 Profession: Barrister Politician Education: Trinity College, Dublin; Lincoln's Inn (entered 1800) Career: Called to the Irish Bar (1802); helped found the "Quarterly Review" (1807); Secretary of the Admiralty, for defending the Duke of York in the case of Mary Anne Clarke (until 1830); edited Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (1831) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 5/07/1810.