CROKER, TEMPLE HENRY, son of Henry Croker, Starsfield Court, co. Cork; b.; adm. (aged 11) Oct 1741; KS 1743; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1746, adm. pens. 29 May 1746, but did not matr.; went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1746; BA 1750; MA 1760; ordained deacon (Chichester) 28 Dec 1751, priest (Winchester) Dec 1753; Curate, Crondall, Hants., 1753; held curacies in Sussex 1751-68; Chaplain to William, 1st Earl of Hillsborough, 8 Feb 1755; Reader of Temple Church Mich. 1759 - dismissal Jun 1763, having gone abroad Sep 1761; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1761, serving on HMS Edgar in Sep 1763; Rector of Ightham, Kent, 28 Jul 1769-73; bankrupt 1773; emigrated to West Indies; Rector of St. John’s, Capisterre, St. Kitts; author of a translation of Orlando Furioso, 1755, and of other works; m. 1st, 15 Mar 1753 Anne McNally, St. James’s, Westminster; lic. to m. 2nd, 6 Mar 1758, Anne Whitehead, Petworth, Sussex [but GM records his marriage in 1763 (sic) to “Miss Whitehead, of Bramshot”, and IGI gives date of marriage as 23 Sep 1763]; d. in St. Kitts 1790 (?). DNB.