DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL WARREN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5145, 19 September 1877, Page 3

DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL WARREN.

By the arrival of the Suez mail at the Bluff yesterday, intelligence has been brought to the colony of the death of Samuel Warren, D.O.L. The following short biography of this eminent author is from “ Men of the Time": — “Samuel Warren, D.C.L., eldest son of the late Rev. Dr. Warren, born in Denbighshire ; in 1807, was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and intended to follow the profession ' of medicine, but changed his views and devoted himself to the law. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1837, and was made Q.O. in 1851, and Recorder of Hull in 1852. Whilst studying for the bar he contributed a series of sketches to ‘ Blackwood’s Magazine,’ under the title of ‘ The Diary of a late Physician.’ It was reprinted in a separate form, has been translated into several continental languages, and was followed by ‘ Ten Thousand a Year,’ published in 1841 ; ‘ Now and Then,’ a novel, in 1847 ; a curious unrhymed poem, ‘ The Lily and the Bee,’ in 1851 ; and ‘ Miscellanies, Critical, Imaginative, &c.,’ and • Moral and Intellectual Development of the Age,’ in 1854. He has contributed extensively to ‘ Blackwood’s Magazine,’ and a collected edition of his works appeared in 1854-5. Mr. Warren has written several works in connection with his profession, such as ‘ Introduction to Law Studies,’ published in 1834; ‘Duties of Attorneys and Solicitors,’ in 1848 ; ‘ Letter to the Queen on a late Court-martial, in 1850 ; ‘The Law and Practice of Election Committees,’ and ‘ Blackstone systematically Abridged,’ in 1857. He was made Honorary D.C.L. of Oxford, on Lord Derby's installation in 1853. lu February, 1856, he was returned for Midhurst in the Conservative interest, and again at the general election in March, 1857. He vacated his seat in February, 1859, having been appointed by Lord Chelmsford one of the two Masters in Lunacy ”