Robert Croke (c 1636 – 30 July 1671) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the

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from 1661 to 1671. Croke was the son of Sir Robert Croke of

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, Oxfordshire and his wife Susanna Van Lore, daughter of Sir

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, 1st Baronet of Tilehurst, Berkshire.History of Parliament Online - Croke, Robert
/ref> He matriculated at

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on 24 June 1653.'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Covert-Cutts', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 338-365. Date accessed: 19 June 2012
/ref> He was a student of

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in 1655 and was called to the bar in 1661. He lived at

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and in 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He was commissioner for assessment for

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from 1661 to 1669, and was

commissioner for loyal and indigent officers The Commissioners for loyal and indigent officers were a body formed by a 1662 act of the Parliament of England (14 Cha. 2. c. 8) to provide relief to impoverished Royalist officers who had served in the English Civil War. After the English Re ...

in 1662. Croke died unmarried at the age of 35, and was buried at Ellesborough.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Croke, Robert 1630s births 1671 deaths English MPs 1661–1679 Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple 17th-century English lawyers