John Croft (mai sayar da ruwan inabi)

John Croft (1732-1820) ɗan kasuwar ruwan inabi ne na Ingila a York da Porto . An kuma san shi da abubuwan tarihi da wallafe-wallafen, kuma a matsayin mai ban sha'awa.

 Rayuwa 
Shi ne ɗan na biyar na Stephen Croft (1683-1733) da matarsa Elizabeth Anderson, 'yar Sir Edmund Anderson, Baronet na 4, an haife shi a Stillington, North Yorkshire . Ya tafi Porto kuma ya shiga cikin kasuwancin ruwan inabi, inda akwai alaƙar iyalin Croft. Wani John Croft, dan uwan farko, ya shiga kamfanin Burtaniya a can a 1736, wanda daga nan ya yi ciniki a matsayin Tilden, Thompson & Croft.

Bayan wani lokaci a Porto, Croft ya koma York, inda ya yi aiki a matsayin abokin tarayya a cikin 'yan kasuwa na ruwan inabi Messrs George Suttrell & Co. Ya sami' 'yancin birni York a 1770, kuma a 1773 yana ɗaya daga cikin sheriffs. Ya zama sanannen mutum, mai ado na gida, tare da laƙabi "Scrapeana" daga ɗayan ayyukansa. Ya mutu a gida a ranar 18 ga Nuwamba 1820, kuma an binne shi a York Minster a ranar 24 ga Nuwamba.

 Ayyuka 
Croft ya buga: 

 A Treatise on the Wines of Portugal; Har ila yau, Dissertation on the Nature and Use of Wines gabaɗaya shigo da su cikin Burtaniya, York 1787, 2nd edition 1788. An sadaukar da shi ga William Constable (1721-1791) na Burton Constable Hall .
 A Small Collection of the Beauties of Shakspeare, biye da Annotations on Plays of Shakespear (Johnson and Steevens's edition), York, 1810.
 Scrapeana, Fugitive Miscellany, Sans Souci, 1792, ban dariya da labarai. An sadaukar da shi ga Józef Boruwłaski . 
 Excerpta Antiqua; ko tarin rubuce-rubuce na asali, 1797.
 Dokoki a Wasan Chess, 1808, ba a san sunansa ba.
 Tarihi Harry Rowe mai nunawa, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 1799. Wannan littafi ne na sadaka, don tallafawa York Dispensary . 

Scrapeana ya ƙunshi wani labari game da Elizabeth Sterne, matar Laurence Sterne .  Stephen Croft na Stillington (1713-1798) abokin Sterne ne, kuma ɗan'uwan John Croft. A cikin shekara ta 1795, John Croft ya aika da tarin labarai game da Sterne ga Caleb Whitefoord; kuma daga baya William Hewins ya buga su. Sun samar da abin da ake kira "zane-zane na abokin gaba". 

 Iyali 
Croft ya yi aure a shekara ta 1774 Judith Bacon, 'yar Francis Bacon, alderman na York, da matarsa ta biyu, Catherine Hildrop . Akwai 'ya'ya maza biyu.

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