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2 unusual facts about Alexander Croke


Alexander Croke

During the War of 1812, the ever-conservative Croke even found guilty merchants who had been granted licences by colonial authorities to trade with New England, on the grounds that he could not support an illegal policy.

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Sir Alexander Croke (July 22, 1758 – December 27, 1842) was a British judge, Colonial Administrator and author influential in Nova Scotia of the early nineteenth century.



see also

Charles Wetherell

His mother was Richarda Croke (1743?-1812), sister of Sir Alexander Croke, of Studley Priory, Oxfordshire.