CROKER, EDWARD (1821-92) was an officer of the 17th Regiment who served in Kashmir and other parts of India, attaining his brevet-majority. He was aide-de-camp to Lieut-general Sir John Littler, deputy-governor of Bengal, whose daughter Marion (then the wife of Major Ling, of the 4th Dragoons), he afterwards married. Selling his commission in 1858, Croker came to New Zealand and took up a farm at Tokomairiro in Otago. He was appointed commissioner of the Tuapeka goldfields (Oct 1861) and later warden at Lawrence. Retiring in 1867, he spent some years in Australia and eventually returned to England, where he died in 1892.

D.N.B. (Littler); Pyke; Otago Daily Times, 29 Jul 1878; N.Z. Herald, 4 Jul 1878.

Reference: Volume 1, page 109

🌳 Further sources