Charles Croke (died 1657) was an English clergyman and Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

Life

He was the third son of

Sir John Croke Sir John Croke (1553 – 23 January 1620) was an English judge and politician who served as Speaker of the English House of Commons between October and December 1601. He also served as Recorder of London, and won the City of London constituen ...

, and was admitted student of

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, on 5 January 1604. He proceeded B.A. (1608), M.A.(1611), B.D. and D.D. (1625). He was tutor of his college, and held the professorship of rhetoric at Gresham College, London, from 1613 to 1619. He was junior proctor (1613), and fellow of Eton College (1617–1621). He became rector of Waterstock,

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, on the presentation of his uncle, Sir George Croke, on 24 June 1616, and rector of Agmondisham,

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, in 1621. He took private pupils at Agmondisham, and among them were Sir William Drake,

Sir Robert Croke Sir Robert Croke (c. 1609 – 8 February 1680) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1643. Croke was the son of Sir Henry Croke, of Hampton Poyle, Oxfordshire and his wife Bridget Hawtrey, d ...

, John Gregory, and Henry Curwen, son of

Sir Patricius Curwen Sir Patricius Curwen, 1st Baronet (c. 1602 – 15 December 1664) of Workington Hall, Cumberland was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1643 and from 1661 to 1664. He supported the Royalist ...

. Curwen died while in Croke's charge, and Croke published a memorial sermon. Later there were George Savile from 1641, and

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who was attending the school when Croke closed it at the end of 1650. At the end of his life Croke went to Ireland, having petitioned Oliver Cromwell for leave to bring Edward Terry (son of Edward Terry the travel writer) to Amersham in his place. He died at

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10 April 1657.

References

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