Richard Croke (or Crocus) (c. 1489–1558) was an English classical scholar and a royal tutor and agent.
[3][a] He studied Greek with William Grocyn in London and Oxford and then with Erasmus[4] and Aleander in Paris in 1511.
Among his pupils were Joachim Camerarius,[5] Hieronymus Dungersheim,[6] who had studied with Croke in Dresden, and Caspar Creuziger.
[b] As a young man, he was identified as a follower of Erasmus, who was then constructing his editio princeps of the New Testament in Greek (Basel, 1516).
[14] While seeking canon lawyers to support Henry's side of the argument,[d] he also contacted humanists (such as Girolamo Ghinucci[16]) and sought manuscripts.