Warburton

Warburton, ELIOT, was born in 1810 at Aughrim, County Galway, the eldest son of the inspector-general of constabulary in Ireland. He studied at Cambridge, and was called to the bar, but soon devoted himself to literature, travel, and the improvement of his Irish estates. His eight works include The Crescent and the Cross (1844), a spirited description of eastern lands; Memoirs of Prince Rupert (1849); and Darien, or the Merchant Prince (1851). He was sailing for Panamá, as an agent of the Atlantic and Pacific Company, when he was lost in the steamship Amazon, burnt off Land's End on 4th January 1852.