206] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
ornament of his induftry, the cor- 
re€tnefs of his judgment, and the 
penetration of his underftanding ; 
and whoever reads the odes which 
loyalty diated at two periods of 
the year, will fhed a tear when he 
finds that the benevolence and phi- 
lanthropy of the monarch are no 
longer to receive their merited pa- 
negyricks from the pen of a lover of 
the mufes, who {corned to flatter, and 
who detefted mercenary adulation. 
Anthony Warton, vicar of Go- 
dalming, Surrey, from 1682 to 1715, 
and buried in the chancel there, 
with a monument, ‘was fon of An- 
thony, vicar of Breamore, Hants, 
(younger brother of the family of 
Michael W. efg. of Beverley, but 
originally of Warton-hall, in the 
county of Lancafter) and was ad~ 
mitted of Trinity college, Oxford, 
afterwards became gentieman-com- 
moner of Magdalen cvilege, where 
he took the degree of LL.B. 1673. 
He was the father of Thomas War- 
ton, B.D. fellow of Magdalen col- 
lege, Oxford, and afterwards pro- 
feifor of poetry in that univeriity, 
and vicar of Bafingftoke, Hants, and 
of Cobham, Surrey, who, by Eliza- 
beth, daughter of the Rev. Joieph 
Richardfon, reGior of Dunsfold, had 
two fons, John, the prefent able and 
worthy matter of Wiachefter {chool, 
and Thomas, the fubject of this ar- 
ticle, and one daughter, Jane. 
Thomas proceeded M.A. 1750; 
B.D. 1767; was elected poetry 
profeflor on the death of Hawkins, 
1756, which he refigned before 
1771, when he was elected F, A.S. 
and Camdenian profeffor, 1785, on 
the refignation of Dr. Scott. In 
1768 he was prefented to the vica- 
rage of Shalfield, Wilts; and, 1782, 
to the donative of Hill Farrance, 
Somertfet. 
The profeffor’s writings are, 
« A Companion to the Guide, 
and a Guide to the Companion; 
being a complete fupplement to all 
the accounts of Oxford hitherto 
publifhed, 1760. ; 
“« The Triumph of Ifis, 1753,” 
in anfwer to Mr. Mafon’s « Ifis, an 
Elegy, 1748.” 
« The Life and Literary Re- 
mains of RalphBathurit, M.D. dean 
of Wells, and prefident of Trinity 
college, Oxford, 1761,” $vo. 
« The life of fir Thomas Pope, 
founder of Trinity college, Oxford, 
1772,” 8vo. g 
« A Defcription of the city, col- 
lege, and cathedral of Winchetter,” 
without date or name. 
«© Newmarket, a Satire,’ 1751. 
4to. 
In Dodfley’s colleétion we have 
by him, vol. LV. p. 253, “ The 
Progrefs of Difcontent;” VI. 258, 
« A Panegyrick on Ale;’’ ibid. 
« The Pleafures of Melancholy.” 
His other poetical effufions were 
all collected together in a {mall oc- 
tavo volume, 1777. ‘To thefe 
fhould now be added the odes writ- 
ten in the years 1785, 6, 7, and 8, 
fince his appointment to the place 
of poet laureat, 1785. Thefe were 
only the lighter productions of Mr. 
Warton’s genius. In 1754, he 
publifhed « Obfervations on. the 
Faerie Queene of Spenfer,” which, 
after he was eleéted profeffor of 
poetry in the univerfity of Oxford, 
he correéted and enlarged, in z vols. 
1zmo. 1760. He communicated ma- 
ny excellent notes to the varioruzm 
edition of Shakefpeare, 1786. But 
his chief d’auvre was, * The Hif- 
tory of Englith Poetry, from the 
clofe of the eleventh to the com- 
mencement of the eighteenth cen- 
tury. To which are prefixed, Two 
Diflertations, 
