CROLY, GEORGE (178o-186o), British divine and author, son of a Dublin physician, was born on Aug. 17, 1780. He was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, and after ordination was ap pointed to a small curacy in the north of Ireland. About 181 o he came to London, and occupied himself with journalistic writing. He wrote Paris in 1815 (1817), a poem in imitation of Childe Harold; Catiline (1822), a tragedy lacking in dramatic force; Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present and the Future (1829), a romance of the "Wandering Jew" type, and other works. Croly eventually received, in 1835, the living of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, from a Whig patron, Lord Brougham, wit'. whose family he was connected. He died suddenly, on Nov. 24, 186o, in London.