Dictionary of Indian Biography/Crooke, William
CROOKE, WILLIAM (1848–)
I.C.S. : born Aug. 6, 1848 : educated at the Grammar School, Tipperary, and at Trinity College, Dublin : arrived in India, 1871 : served in the N.W.P. and Oudh : Magistrate and Collector : retired, 1896 : author of Rural and Agricultural Glossary, N.W.P. and Oudh, 1888 : an Ethnographical Handbook for the N.W.P. and Oudh, 1890 : The N.W.P. of India, their History, etc., 1897 : The Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, 1896 : and a Gazetteer of Jalesar : The Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P. and Oudh, 1896 : also of a revised edition of Burnell's and Yule's Hobson-Jobson, and numerous papers in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute and Folklore Society.