Herbert Croft (other)
Herbert Croft may refer to: *Herbert Croft (bishop) (1603–1691), English churchman *Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet (c. 1651–1720), English Member of Parliament *Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet (1751–1816), British author *Sir Herbert Croft, 9th Baronet (1838–1902), British Member of Parliament *Sir Herbert Croft, 10th Baronet (1868–1915), of the Croft baronets *Sir Herbert Croft (died 1629) Sir Herbert Croft (1565 – 1 April 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1614. Croft was the eldest surviving son of Edward Croft of Croft Castle and his first wife. He was educated ...

Herbert Croft (bishop)
Herbert Croft (1603–1691) was an English churchman, bishop of Hereford from 1661. Life Croft was born on 18 May 1603 at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, his mother being then on a journey to London, the third son of Sir Herbert Croft and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Anthony Bourne of Holt Castle. Margaret Croft (d. 1637), a lady in waiting to Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, was his sister. He married, before 8 April 1645, Anne Browne, the only daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Jonathan Browne and Anne Barne Lovelace. Her half-brothers were Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) an English poet in the seventeenth century and Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), who was the second governor of the New York colony appointed by the Duke of York. After being for some time, like his father who had converted, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, he returned to the Church of England in about 1630. He then studied at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating B.D. in 1636 and D.D. in 1640. In 1644 he w ...
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Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet ( – 3 November 1720) was a British politician. Family Croft was the only son of the Right Reverend Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford and Anne Browne, the only daughter of the Very Rev. Dr. Jonathan Browne and Anne Barne Lovelace. Her half-brothers were Richard Lovelace (1618–1657) an English poet in the seventeenth century and Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), who was the second governor of the New York Colony appointed by James, Duke of York (later King James II). The great nephew of both George Sandys (2 March 1577 – March 1644), the traveller, colonist and poet, and of Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 – October 1629), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company, he was also the great great grandson of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester (1559–1570), Bishop of London (1570–1576), and the Archbishop ...
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Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet
Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet (1 November 1751 – 26 April 1816), English author best known for his novel ''Love and Madness''. Life Croft was born at Dunster Park, Berkshire, son of the son of Herbert Croft and Elizabeth Young. He matriculated at University College, Oxford, in March 1771, and was subsequently entered at Lincoln's Inn. He was called to the bar, but in 1782 returned to Oxford with a view to preparing for holy orders. In 1786 he received the vicarage of Prittlewell, Essex, but he remained at Oxford for some years accumulating materials for a proposed English dictionary. Croft spent years on this project and he also took on preparation work made by Joseph Priestley. However, despite compiling thousands of entries not found in other dictionaries, the project was finally abandoned because of a failure to find sufficient subscribers.Dorothy McMillan, ‘Walker , Lady Mary (1736–1822)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed ...
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Sir Herbert Croft, 9th Baronet
Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, 9th Baronet, DL (25 July 1838 – 11 February 1902), was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Biography Croft was the son of Sir Archer Denman Croft (1801–1865), 8th Baronet and his wife Julia Barbara Corbet (1802–1864), widow of Athelstan Corbet and daughter of Major General John Garstin (1756–1820). He was educated at Eton College and at Merton College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1860 and MA in 1864. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1861 and went the Oxford Circuit. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1865. Throughout his life he evinced considerable interest in local affairs, and was a member of the county council, chairman of the Hereford county bench of magistrates, and deputy-chairman of the Court of quarter sessions. He was a J.P. and deputy lieutenant for Herefordshire and a lieutenant in the Herefordshire Militia. At the 1868 general ele ...
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Croft Baronets
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Croft, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All three creations are extant as of 2008. The Croft Baronetcy, of Croft Castle in the County of Hereford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 18 November 1671 for Herbert Croft, who later represented Herefordshire in Parliament. He was a member of a prominent Herefordshire family of Norman descent. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Leominster, Winchelsea and Bere Alston. The fifth Baronet was an author. The ninth Baronet represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons. The former seat of the family was Croft Castle in Herefordshire. The Croft Baronetcy, of Cowling Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 December 1818 for John Croft, in honour of his services during the Peninsular War. He shared a common ancestry with the Croft Baronets of Croft ...
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