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passed the Chair at the Medical and Chirurgical and the Hunterian 

 Societies, in addition to the reward finally bestowed by Her Majesty, 

 of creating him one of her Sergeant-Surgeons a few months before his 

 death. He died somewhat suddenly, after having suffered from pro- 

 longed illness, at his residence, No 54, Green Street, Grosvenor-square, 

 on the 6th of March, 1858. 



In manner and personal appearance he was eminently refined and 

 gentlemanlike. Of such men we may say, with the younger Pliny, 

 " Accepisse te beneficium credes, quum propius inspexeris hominem, 

 omnibus honoribus, omnibus titulis parem." 



HENRY WARBURTON, Esq. was the son of a London merchant, 

 and was himself for a time engaged in business. He had, however, 

 passed through a distinguished career at Cambridge, and being pos- 

 sessed of sufficient fortune, he exchanged the pursuit of commerce 

 for science, literature, and politics. He entered Parliament in 

 1826, and finally retired from it in 1847. The course he usually 

 took as a member of the legislature is well known, and among va- 

 rious measures of public utility in which he had a principal share, we 

 need here only specify, as connected with science, his Chairmanship 

 of the Committee on Medical Education, and his authorship of the 

 Anatomy Act. He was one of the founders of the London Univer- 

 sity, now the University College, and for many years was a Member 

 of its Council. He was also an original Member of the Senate of 

 the University of London, and continued in that body till the time 

 of his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1809. 

 He was also an active member of the Geological Society, and in 

 1843 and 1844, filled the office of President. He died at his 

 house in Cadogan-place, on the 16th of September, 1858, at the 

 age of seventy-three. 



Mr. Warburton was always in the habit of keeping up the ma- 

 thematical knowledge which he had acquired at Cambridge. His 

 mathematical library was extensive ; and the retirement in which he 

 lived, even while he was a member of Parliament, gave him time to 

 use it. It was not until the termination of his public life that he 

 thought of printing any speculation of his own : and it is a remark- 

 able instance of the manner in which even men inured to publicity 

 feel diffidence in entering on a new career, that the veteran politician, 

 accustomed to face overpowering majorities of the House of Commons, 



