Croggon, Walter Ore

Croggon, Walter Ore an English Wesleyan minister, was born of Baptist parents, at Penryn, Cornwall. He was converted in his nineteenth year, and in 1817 entered the ministry; was stationed successively in Cornwall (1817-22), at Charenton, France (1823 sq.), Zante, Ionian Isles (1827), Kingswood, England (1834), and London, as superintendent of schools (1836-49). He died at Sittingbourne, Kent, January 30, 1854, in the sixty-third year of his age. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1854; Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1833, page 241, 1854, page 478.