Warren

Warren, SAMUEL, novelist, was born in Denbighshire, 23d May 1807. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1837. He was made a Queen's Counsel (1851), was Recorder of Hull (1854-74), represented Midhurst in the Conservative interest (1856-59), and then he was appointed one of the two Masters of Lunacy. His Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1832) had been contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, as also was Ten Thousand a Year (1841), the amusing story of 'Tittlebat Titmouse.' By these he is chiefly remembered; but he published a dozen more works, including Now and Then (1847), The Lily and the Bee (1851), and several law-books. He died in London, 29th July 1877.