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SAMUEL WARREN (1807-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAMUEL See also:WARREN (1807-1877)  , See also:English lawyer and author, son of Dr See also:Samuel See also:Warren, See also:rector of All Souls', Ancoats, See also:Manchester, was See also:born near See also:Wrexham in Denbighshire on the 23rd of May 1807 . The See also:elder Samuel Warren (1781—1862) became a Wesleyan See also:minister, but was expelled by See also:Conference in 1835 on See also:account of his attitude towards proposals for the See also:establishment of a theological training See also:college at Manchester . He formed a new association, the members of which were nicknamed Warrenites, and this See also:developed into the See also:United Methodist See also:Free Churches . Warren himself took orders in the See also:Church of See also:England . His son, the younger Samuel Warren, studied See also:medicine at the University of See also:Edinburgh, but abandoned this to study for the English See also:bar . He entered the Inner See also:Temple in 1828, and was successful in his profession . He took See also:silk in r851, was made See also:recorder of See also:Hull in 1852, represented See also:Midhurst in See also:parliament for three years (1856-1859) and was rewarded in 1859 with a mastership in lunacy . He had already written a See also:good See also:deal on the subject of See also:insanity in its legal aspects, and he was always a determined opponent of the rising school of medical alienists who were more and more in favour of reducing certain forms of See also:crime to a See also:state of See also:mental See also:aberration which should not be punished outside of asylums . Meantime he had made much more brilliant success in fiction . Very See also:early in his career he had begun to write for See also:Blackwood . His Passages from the See also:Diary of a See also:Late Physician were published in that See also:magazine between See also:August 183o and August 1837, and appeared in collected See also:form in 1838 . These realistic See also:short stories, with a somewhat morbid See also:interest shielded under a moral purpose, were extremely popular .

Warren's brief experience as a medical student thus stood him in good See also:

stead . But his See also:great success was Ten Thousand a See also:Year, which ran in Blackwood from See also:October 1839 to August 1841, and was published separately immediately on its conclusion . Critics complained of the coarse workmanship, the banality of the moralizing, the crudeness of the pathos, the farcical extravagance of the See also:humour; but meantime the See also:work proved one of the most popular novels of the See also:century . Of the higher qualities of See also:imagination and See also:passion Warren was destitute, but his sketches of See also:character, especially farcical character—Tittlebat See also:Titmouse, Oily Gammon, Mr Quicksilver (an open See also:caricature of See also:Lord See also:Brougham)—are bold and strong, forcibly imprinted on the memory, and the interest of the See also:story is made to run with a powerful current . For several years Warren was known as the author of Ten Thousand a Year, and many tales were told of his open See also:pride in the achievement . In 1847 he made another venture, but Now and Then was not a success . The See also:Lily and the See also:Bee, a See also:squib on the Crystal See also:Palace, published in 1851, though it had the See also:honour of See also:translation into See also:Italian, was a See also:signal failure . A pessimistic dissertation on The Intellectual and Moral Development of the See also:Age, published in 1853, also See also:fell See also:flat, and thenceforth Warren, after See also:publishing his See also:Works: See also:Critical and Imaginative, in four volumes in 18J4i retired on his laurels . He died in See also:London on the 29th of See also:July 1877 . Warren also wrote several legal works of repute—Introduction to See also:Law Studies (1835), Extracts from See also:Blackstone (1837), See also:Manual of See also:Parliamentary Law (1852) .

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