Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

rdf:langString Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

rdf:langString Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress. Anne Crofton (née Croker) was the daughter of Thomas Croker of Blackwater, County Kildare and Anne Ryves, daughter and co-heiress of William Ryves of Upper Wood, County Kilkenny. William was a descendant of Sir William Ryves of Damory Court, Dorset who settled in Ireland about 1620 and became a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). Crofton was the wife of Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament for Roscommon. Sir Edward had been offered a peerage shortly before his death on 30 September 1797. The honour was instead bestowed on his widow Anne, Lady Crofton, who on 1 December 1797 was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baroness Crofton. Lady Crofton died in August 1817, aged 66, and was succeeded in the barony by her grandson Edward.