Warburton, Bartholomew Elliott George, 1810-1852, writer
- KCL-AF1333
- Person
- 1810-1852
Born 1810 in Tullamore, King’s county, Ireland; educated by private tutor at Wakefield, Yorkshire; admitted as undergraduate to Queen’s College, Cambridge, 1828; transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1830; gained BA, 1834, MA, 1837; entered to study law at Inner Temple, 1832; admitted King's Inn, Dublin, 1833; called to Irish bar in 1837, but abandoned law to manage his Irish estates, travel, and write, under the pseudonym Eliot Warburton; travelled extensively through Syria, Palestine and Egypt, 1843; accounts of travels published as series of articles entitled ‘Episodes of Eastern Travel’ in The Dublin University Magazine, 1843-1844; collected articles on Near East travels published as The Crescent and the Cross, or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, 1845; Zoe: an Episode in the Greek War published in aid of the Irish poor, 1847; Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers published, 1849; published novel Reginald Hastings, 1850; edited Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, 1851; appointed by the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company to negotiate a treaty with the native Indian peoples over the strategic geographical area of Isthmus of Darien [now Isthmus of Panama], 1851; died on voyage to South America when Royal Mail steamship Amazon caught fire, 1852; Darien, or, The Merchant Prince posthumously published, 1852.
Publications: The Crescent and the Cross, or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel (London, 1845); Zoe: an Episode in the Greek War 1847; Hochelaga or England in the New World by George Warburton, edited by Eliot Warburton (London,1846); Memoirs of prince Rupert and the Cavaliers including their private correspondence (London, 1849); Reginald Hastings; or, A tale of the troubles in 164- (London, 1850); Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries, by Robert Folkestone Williams, edited by Eliot Warburton (London, 1851); Darien, or, The Merchant Prince (London, 1852).
