Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Croft, Herbert (1)
Croft, Herbert, 3s. Herbert, equitis. Christ Church, matric. 25 July, 1636, aged 34; B.D. 25 June, 1636, D.D. 18 April, 1640, rector of Uley, co. Gloucester, 1638, and of Harding, Oxon, 1639, chaplain to the Earl of Northumberland in the Scotch expedition 1639, canon of Salisbury 1639, chaplain to Charles I., canon of Worcester 1640, and of Windsor 1641, dean of Hereford 1644, deprived of all his spiritualities in the rebellion, but restored in 1660, bishop of Hereford 1662, until his death 18 May, 1691. See Ath., iv. 309; Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus; & D.N.B.