Anne (Croker) Crofton (1751 - 1817)

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Died 12 Aug 1817 at age 66 in Paris, France

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Biography

Became an Irish suo jure peeress on December 1, 1797 as Baroness Crofton when her husband died before receiving his peerage.

The title was created in 1797 (as Baroness Crofton) for Dame Anne Crofton. She was the widow of Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, of the Mote, who had represented Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons and had been offered a peerage just before his death. The peerage was instead bestowed upon his widow. She was succeeded by her grandson, the second Baron, who had already succeeded as fourth Baronet.

Sources

• "The Story of Mote", Francis George Crofton, 1895.

• References at ThePeerage.com.

• "The Crofton Memoirs" by Henry Thomas Crofton, 1911.

• Wikipedia entry.

• Ancestry.com. UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.. The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; General Register Office: Foreign Registers and Returns; Class: RG 33; Piece: 60

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