Crofts, Ernest

artist, was born in Leeds, Eng., Sept. 14, 1847; studied with A. B. Clay, of London, and Hunten, in Du eldorf. He has been elected A ociate of the Royal Academy in London, and his picture of Marl borough after the Battle of Ramillies, won for him the third-cla medal at the Paris Exposition in 1889. Cro'ker, RICHARD, politician, was born at Black Rock, Ireland, Nov. 24, 1843, but has resided in the U. S. since early childhood; served in the Civil War; has been three times elected Alderman of New York, and during 1889-90 occupied the office of city chamberlain. His resistance to the power of the Tweed ring brought him into prominence, and he was for some years the head of the Tammany Hall organization. Croker, THOMAS CROFTON, an Irish novelist, born at Cork, 1798. His Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland, and Legends of the Irish Peasantry, are works which have been several times reprinted. Died 1854.