Family and Education
b. c. 1625, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Unton Croke of Marston by Anne, da. and h. of Richard Hore of Marston. educ. Winchester 1636, aged 11; I. Temple, entered 1636, called 1646. m. by 1654, Elizabeth (d. 27 Mar. 1683), da. of Martin Wright, goldsmith, of Oxford, 5s. (3 d.v.p.); suc. fa. 1671; Kntd. 16 Mar. 1681.Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 280-1; Bodl. mss, Wood F4, f. 124.
Offices Held
Commr. for sale of Woodstock manor 1649; freeman, Oxford 1653, dep. recorder 1653 – 60, recorder June 1660 – d.; j.p. Oxford 1655 – Aug. 1660, 1665 – d., Abingdon 1655, Woodstock 1656 – Aug. 1660, Oxon. Mar. 1660 – d.; commr. for security, Oxen. 1655 – 56, assessment, Oxon. 1657, Jan. 1660, 1661 – 63, 1664 – 80, Oxford 1661 – 80, militia, Oxon. 1659, Oxford Mar. 1660; bencher, I. Temple 1662, reader 1670; commr. for recusants, Oxon. 1675.
Serjeant-at-law 1675-d.
Main residences: the Inner Temple; Marston, nr. Oxford.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
CROKE, Richard (c.1625-83)
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Oxford 1644
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