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[In order to expedite the progress of the remaining portion of this work, and thereby be the sooner at liberty to resume the more active occupations of his youthful days, the Author has determined to deviate so far from his original plan, as not to abide by the seniority list of Commanders].

 of the late Edward Croker, of Lisnabrin House, near Tallow, co. Cork, Esq., by Thomasine, daughter of the Rev. Charles Philips, Rector of Magoorney, in the same county. He is collaterally descended from one of the old Saxon families, settled at Lynham (or Lineham) Hall, in Devonshire, long before the Norman conquest. Two of the younger sons of that house, both of whom were officers of rank in the army, went over to Ireland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; the eldest of them settling at Ballinagar, co. Limerick; and the other (Hugh Crocker) uniting himself in marriage to Lucretia, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Walter Coppinger, of Lisnabrin, whose ancestors had possessed that property for several centuries. From Hugh Crocker, the subject of this memoir is lineally descended. His great-grandfather. Colonel Richard Croker, (who, we believe, was the first that ceased to use the middle letter in the patronimic of his fore-fathers, retaining, however, the same arms and crest), was likewise possessed of the noble estate of Madrid, and another called Rovesmore, both in the county of Cork, of which he was twice High Sheriff, in very troublesome times.

