MEMOIR 



He had the following lines inscribed over the two 

 chimney-pieces in his dining-room — 



" If proud thou be of ancestors 

 For worth and wisdom famed, 

 So live that they, if now alive, 

 Would not of thee be 'shamed. 



" In days of olden chivalry 

 Bequeathed from sire to son, 

 May honour keep untarnished still 

 The shield which valour won." 



The only public office Warburton ever filled was 

 that which had been held by his ancestor, Philip de 

 Malpas, nearly seven hundred years before. He was 

 High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1833, but the distinc- 

 tion which he esteemed most highly was that of 

 being elected an honorary member of the Old 

 Tarporley Club — an honour almost, if not quite, 

 unique. His father, who was only five-and-thirty 

 when Rowland succeeded to the estates in 181 3, 

 lived till 1846, and his mother died at the age of 

 ninety-nine in 1881. His younger brother, Peter 

 (1813—89), having served in the Bombay army, 

 retired with the rank of brevet-major in 1853, in- 

 tending to settle in New Zealand ; but he changed 

 his destination to the colony of South Australia, 

 where he became Commissioner of Police, after- 

 wards earning distinction as a successful explorer. 

 He endured terrible suffering and hardship in accom- 

 plishing the overland route from Adelaide to West 

 Australia, which he was the first traveller to attempt. 



In no English county has so little change in the 

 ownership of land taken place within historic times 



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