Croly

Croly, GEORGE, poet, romance-writer, biographer, and preacher, was born at Dublin in 1780, and educated at Trinity College there. He took orders in 1804, and in 1810 came to London, where, after twenty-four years of literary labour, he in 1835 became rector of St Stephen's, Walbrook. He died 24th November 1860. Between 1817 and 1858 Dr Croly published some forty works—the best known being the romance of Salathiel. See the Memoir prefixed to his Book of Job (1863).