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WARREN, RT. HON. SIR JOHN. 



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one of the values of the unknown quantity. It is observed however 

 that the procews rnay sometimes lead to an equation of a higher 

 degree than that which it is proposed to resolve. 



He also studied medicine, and in 1767 he took the degree of M.D. ; 

 but he has written nothing concerning the science, and it does not 

 appear that he had much practice. His life was spent chiefly at the 

 university, where he constantly performed the duties of his professor- 

 ship; and he died August 15, 1798. 



Dr. Waring was considered the most learned analyst of his age, and 

 he is said to have been a man of simple manners, as well as of 

 inflexible integrity ; but so diffident of his powers of conversation, as 

 to be greatly embarrassed when in the company of strangers. His 

 mathematical works are very defective in method, and abound with 

 typographical errors. Independently of the papers above alluded to, 

 he published at Cambridge the following treatises : 1, ' Miscellanea 

 Aualytica de ^Equationibus Algebraicis et Curvarum proprietatibus,' 

 4to, 1762; 2, 'Meditationes AlgcbraicEC,' 4to, 1770; 3, Proprietates 

 Algebraicarum Curvarum,' 4to, 1772; and 4, 'MeditatiouesAnalytica),' 

 4to, 1776. The third in the above enumeration is the most esteemed 

 of all his works, and it contains a description of certain properties, at 

 that time new, of algebraic curves, with the rectifications, radii of 

 curvature, &c., of the lines : it treats also of the figures produced by 

 the revolutions of the curves about given lines or axes, and contains 

 investigations relating to the greatest and least values of lines drawn 

 within and about them. Dr. Waring also published a tract on morals 

 and metaphysics ; and a pamphlet on probabilities, on the values of 

 lives, on survivorships, &c. 



WARNEFORD, THE REV. SAMUEL WILSON, was the son 

 of the Rev. Francis Warncford, vicar of St. Martin's, York, of an 

 old and wealthy North Wiltshire family, and he was born at Seven- 

 hampton, near Highworth, in Wiltshire, in 1758. At the usual age 

 he was sent to University College, Oxford ; ill health prevented his 

 attaining any academical honours, but he graduated M.A. 1786, and 

 B.C.L. in 1790. In 1796 he married a daughter of Loveden Loveden, 

 Esq., with whom he acquired a considerable fortune ; but a few years 

 left bitn a widower without issue. In 1809 he was presented by his 

 college to the rectory of Lydyard Milicent, Wilts, valued at 5001. per 

 annum; in 1810 he was presented to the rectory of Bourton-on-the 

 Hill, in Gloucestershire, valued at 7001. per annum ; and in the same 

 year took the degree of D.C.L. He lived at Bourton very plainly and 

 moderately, and from an early period devoted a great part of his 

 property to the promoting of large establishments beneficial to the 

 public, for which purpose he carefully abstained from the common 

 practice of bestowing trifling eleemosynary alms, refusing, it is said, 

 assistance even to the poorer members of his own family. But 

 there was no ostentation in his princely gifts ; many indeed were 

 anonymous. He founded schools and almshouses in his own parish. 

 He was a contributor to schools, colleges, and hospitals throughout the 

 kingdom. On the Clergy Orphan School, at various times, he bestowed 

 13,OOOZ. ; and he contributed large sums for church purposes, par- 

 ticularly in his own county of Gloucester, and in Nova Scotia. He 

 founded an hospital at Leamington which bears his name ; and one 

 for lunatics on Headington Hill, near Oxford. To King's College in 

 London he presented anonymously several donations of 5001. each ; 

 but to Queen's College, Birmingham, the total amount of his contri- 

 butions was upwards of 25,0001. This institution was commenced by 

 Mr. Sands Cox as a school of medicine, and Dr. Warneford liberally 

 afforded pecuniary assistance, thereby enabling him to expand the school 

 into a college, which was ultimately patronised by royalty. When it 

 was found desirable to add other departments of education, Dr. 

 Warneford was again the chief contributor ; and desirous that religious 

 instruction should be afforded, he founded the college chapel, and 

 furnished the means for ensuring permanent religious teaching. In 

 1844, in recognition of his wide-spread beneficence, the bishop of 

 Gloucester conferred on him au honorary canonry in Gloucester 

 Cathedral; and in 1849 a statue of him was erected in the Warneford 

 Lunatic Asylum at Oxford, the expense being defrayed by public sub- 

 scription. He died at Bourton on January 11, 1855, enjoying good 

 health till within a few days of his death. He bequeathed 20001. to the 

 Christian Knowledge Society, and 20001. to the Society for the Propa- 

 gation of the Gospel, in addition to previous gifts. 



WARNER, TERDINANDO, LL.D., a voluminous compiler and 

 theological and miscellaneous writer of the last century, is said to 

 have been born, where is not known, in 1703, and to have studied at 

 Jesus College, Cambridge, but the latter fact is doubtful. Having 

 taken holy orders, he became vicar of Ronde in Wiltshire, in 1730, and 

 rector of St. Michael Queenhithe, London, in 1746, to which last pre- 

 ferment was added the rectory of Barnes in Surrey, in 1758. He died 

 of gout in or soon after 1767. His degree of LL.D. he is supposed to 

 have obtained from some Scotch university. 



Of Dr. Warner's various publications the following are the most 

 important : ' A System of Divinity and Morality, compiled from the 

 works of the most eminent divines of the Church of England,' 5 vols., 

 12mo, 1750, and second edition, 4 vols., Svo, 1756 ; ' An Illustration of 

 the Book of Common Prayer,' &c., folio, 1754 ; ' The Ecclesiastical 

 History of the Eighteenth Century,' 2 vols., folio, 1756-7 ; ' Memoirs 

 of the Life of Sir Thomas More,' Svo, 1758 ; ' The History of Ireland,' 

 vol. L, 4to, 1763; ' Tho History of the Rebellion and Civil War in 



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Ireland,' 4to, 1767. Ho was also the author of the scheme for the 

 Middlesex Clerical Widows' and Orphans' Fund, in relation to which 

 he published ono pamphlet iu 1753, and another in 17(J5. He left a 

 son, the REV. JOHN WARNER, D.D., born in 1736, who was of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, and who, after having long preached at a chapel 

 of his own in Long Acre, London, was presented to the united rectories 

 of Hockliffe and Chalgrave in Bedfordshire, and subsequently to the 

 rectory of Stourton in Wilts. He died in 1800. Dr. John Warner 

 was an ardent republican, and expounded the principles of his political 

 philosophy in a work which he called ' Metronariston,' which was his 

 principal literary performance. 



WARNER, RICHARD, was born in 1711, and was educated at 

 Oxford. His residence was at Woodford-row, in Essex, and he is 

 remembered as the author of the ' Plantco Woodfordienses,' which was 

 published in 1771. From early life he was much attached to tho 

 study of botany, and having a fortune at his command, he bestowed 

 much pains in collecting and cultivating exotic plants ; but he was 

 also celebrated for his critical knowledge of Shakspere, and at one time 

 contemplated publishing an edition of his works. He died on the 

 llth of April 1775. He possessed a valuable library, which he 

 bequeathed to Wadharn College, Oxford. He also left a stipend for 

 the purpose of establishing a botanical lecture in the University of 

 Oxford. He was a man of literary tastes and habits, and was rather a 

 patron of those who cultivated botany than a great botanist himself. 

 'Additions to Warner's Plantse Woodfordienses' were published by 

 Mr. Forster in 1784. Miller dedicated a genus of plants to him under 

 the name 'Warneria.' Warner also translated in conjunction with 

 Colman and Thornton some of the comedies of Plautus. [THORNTON, 



BONNEL.] 



WARNER, WILLIAM, a native of Oxfordshire, is supposed to have 

 been born about 1558. He was a student at Oxford, but left the 

 university without a degree, and going to London, became an attorney 

 in the Common Pleas. He died suddenly, March 9, 1609, and was 

 buried in the parish church of Amwell. He was the author of 

 'Albion's England,' an historical poem, or rather a collection of 

 ballads, in thirteen books, in the Alexandi'ine stanza. This work, in 

 his own time, was exceedingly popular, and was frequently reprinted 

 in the course of the thirty years after 1586, when it was first pub- 

 lished. Some of his contemporaries compared, or even preferred him, 

 to Spenser. The general simplicity of the feeling and language, and 

 the frequent indelicacy of the images, are alike instanced in the 

 beautiful pastoral episode of ' Argentile and Curan,' which is given by 

 Percy and Campbell, as well as in several other collections. The 

 whole poem, reprinted, is in Chalmers' ' British Poets : ' a distinction 

 which it well deserved, although it was far from meriting the extra- 

 vagant commendations of older times. Warner was also the author of 

 ' Syrinx, a Seavenfold Historic,' a collection of prose stories, published 

 in 1597 ; and he is supposed also by Warton and others to have been 

 the writer of a translation of the ' Menceehmi ' of Plautus, which first 

 appeared in 1595, and was reprinted by Steevens in 1770, in his 'Six 

 Old Plays, on which Shakspere founded.' 



WARREN, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN BORLASE, 

 BART., G.C.B., was born in 1754, at the family-seat of Stapleford, in 

 Nottinghamshire. Young Warren, when at Winchester School, ran 

 off and joined a king's ship, upon which his friends procured him an 

 appointment as a midshipman on board the Alderney sloop, com- 

 manded by Captain O'Hara ; and in this capacity he served for some 

 time in the North Sea. Returning to England, he placed himself as a 

 pupil with the Rev. Thomas Martyn, the well-known botanical pro- 

 fessor, at Taplow near Cambridge ; and was soon after admitted as a 

 gentleman commoner of Emmanuel College in that university. He 

 took his degree of M.A. in 1776. Before this, in 1774, he was returned 

 to parliament for the borough of Marlow, and in 1775 was created a 

 baronet. Soon after he returned to sea, and serving with Lord Howe 

 in America, as a lieutenant on board the Nonsuch, was, in 1779, made 

 master and commander of the Helena sloop of war, and in 1781 

 received his commission as post-captain. He was re-elected for Marlow 

 in 1780; and after the peace of 1783 he married the youngest 

 daughter of General Sir John Clavering, K.B., by Lady Diana West, 

 daughter of the Earl Delawar. On the breaking out of the war of 



1793 he was appointed to the Flora frigate, and in this and other ships 

 greatly distinguished himself as a vigilant and active commander. In 



1794 he received the riband of the Bath, as a testimony of his majesty's 

 high opinion of his services. In the summer of 1795 he acted as com- 

 modore of the division of ships which effected tho debarkation at 

 Quiberon Bay, intended to assist the royalists of La Vende"e; and 

 although that expedition proved eventually a failure, Warren was 

 admitted on all hands to have well performed his part. In 1797 he 

 removed into the Canada of 74 guns; and being soon after detached to 

 the coast of Ireland, he had the good fortune to fall in with the 

 French naval force intended for the invasion of that country, and to 

 obtain over it a signal victory, capturing the whole squadron, consist- 

 ing of a ship-of-the-line and three frigates, on the llth of October 

 1798. For this important service he received a vote of thanks from 

 both houses of parliament, and on the next promotion he 1 was made a 

 rear-admiral of the blue. Meanwhile at the general election of 1793 

 he had been returned to the House of Commons as one of the members 

 for the town of Nottingham ; and he was re-elected for the same place 



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