Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, of Baltimore was an English-born politician, lawyer and landowner in seventeenth-century Ireland. He is chiefly remembered as the founder of the town of Baltimore, Coun
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Thomas Crooke was a sixteenth-century English clergyman, who was noted for his strongly Calvinist views. He was the father of several children, including the lawyer and politician Sir Thomas Crooke, 1
Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet
…baronets of Baltimore, and ancestor of the Crooke family of Crookstown House. He was born in Cransley, Northamptonshire, the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Crooke; his mother was a Miss Samuel. His father was a Calvinist clergyman whose strong religious views often brought him into conflict with the English Crown…
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