Croker, T. Crofton, Irish folk-lorist, born in Cork; held a well-paid clerkship in the Admiralty; collected and published stories, legends, and traditions of the S. of Ireland; he wrote with a humour which was heartily Irish; his most original work being “The Adventures of Barney Mahoney”; he was a zealous antiquary; he was a brilliant conversationalist (1798‒1854).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Croker, John Wilson * Croll, James