SAMUEL WARREN BIOGRAPHY

WARREN, SAMUEL (1807-1877). —Novelist, born in Denbighshire, s. of a Nonconformist minister. After studying medicine at Edin. he took up law, and became a barrister, wrote several legal text-books, and in 1852 was made Recorder of Hull. He sat in the House of Commons for Midhurst 1856-59, and was a Master in Lunacy 1859-77. He was the author of Passages from the Diary of a late Physician , which appeared (1832-37) first in Blackwood's Magazine , as did also Ten Thousand a Year (1839). Both attracted considerable attention, and were often reprinted and translated. His last novel, Now and Then , had little success. W. entertained exaggerated ideas as to the importance of his place in literature.