Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet
Author
1751 – 1816
Who was Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet?
Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet, English author best known for his novel Love and Madness.
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. He was twice married, and on the day after his second wedding day he was imprisoned at Exeter for debt.
He then retired to Hamburg, and two years later his library was sold. He had succeeded in 1797 to the baronetcy, but not to the estates, of a distant cousin, Sir John Croft, 4th Baronet. He returned to England in 1800, but went abroad once more in 1802. He lived near Amiens at a house owned by Lady Mary Hamilton, said to have been a daughter of the earl of Leven and Melville. Later he removed to Paris, where he died on 26 April 1816.
In some of his numerous literary enterprises he had the help of Charles Nodier.
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- Born
- Nov 1, 1751
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- University College, Oxford
- Died
- Apr 26, 1816
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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