BARTHOLOMEW

See also:

• ELLIOTT, EBENEZER (1781–1849)

ELLIOTT

See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE

See also:

• BARTHOLOMEW ELLIOTT GEORGE WARBURTON (1810-1852)
• WARBURTON, COLONEL SIR ROBERT (1842–1899)
• WARBURTON, WILLIAM (1698–1779)

WARBURTON (1810-1852)  , usually known as Eliot Warburton, British traveller and novelist, was born in 1810 near Tullamore, Ireland . He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Irish bar in 1837 . He contracted lasting friendships with Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and A . W . Kinglake, and gave up his practice as a barrister for travel and literature . He made a hit with his first book, The Crescent and the Cross . It was an account of his travels in 1843 in Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, and fairly divided public attention with Kinglake's Eothen, which appeared in the same year, 1844 . Interest was centred in the East at the time, and Warburton had popular sympathy with him in his eloquent advocacy of the annexation of Egypt; but, apart from this consideration, the spirited narrative of his adventures and the picturesque sketches of Eastern life and character were more than sufficient to justify the success of the book . His most substantial work was a Memoir of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers (1849), enriched with original documents, and written with eloquent partiality for the subject . This was followed in 185o by Reginald Hastings, a novel, the scenes of which were laid in the same period of civil war, and, in 1851, by another historical novel, Darien, or The Merchant Prince . He was sent by the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company to explore the isthmus of Darien and to negotiate a treaty with the Indian tribes . He sailed on this ' Seven species have been recorded as wandering to Greenland, and one, Dendroeca virens, is said to have occurred in Europe (Naumannia, 1858, p .

425) .

mission in the " Amazon," which perished by fire with nearly all on board on the 4th of January 1852 . His brother, Major George Warburton (1816–1857), wrote Hochelaga, or England in the New World (1846), and The Conquest of Canada (1849) .