in the collection is an ‘Eclogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney.’ The greater part of ‘A. W.'s’ voluminous verse in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie’ deals with love. Its temper resembles that of Warren's ‘Poore Mans Passions.’ ‘A. W.’ in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie’ very often employs the six-line stanza in which the whole of Warren's volume is composed. Some of ‘A. W.'s’ poems in the ‘Rhapsodie’ had circulated in manuscript in 1596 (Harl. MS. 6910). In the Harleian MS. 280, f. 102, there is a list in Davison's handwriting of the first lines of all the poems, ‘in rhyme and measured verse,’ which ‘A. W.’ had produced, apparently before 1602. The list includes 140 compositions, of which seventy-seven figured in the ‘Poetical Rhapsodie.’ Five further poems by ‘A. W.’ were introduced into the second edition of Davison's ‘Rhapsodie’ in 1608. Five others of ‘A. W.'s’ poems were subsequently transferred from the ‘Rhapsodie’ to the second edition of ‘England's Helicon,’ 1614.
[Collier's Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature, ii. 487; Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, ed. A. H. Bullen, vol. i. pp. lxvii et seq., pp. lxxxii et seq.; Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, p. 382; Brydges's Restituta, iv. 190 et seq. Hunter suggests that ‘A. W.’ was Anthony Wingfield: see Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24491, f. 202. Heart-Easings: Songs, Sonnets, and Epigrams, by ‘A. W.’ of the Middle Temple, Gent. [1595], reprinted literally from a copy supposed unique in the British Museum: T. and J. Allman, Princes Street, Hanover Square, 1824, is a modern forgery. In Lansdowne MS. 821 is a letter from A. Warren to Henry Cromwell, but there is nothing to connect the writer of this letter with the poet.]
WARREN, CHARLES (1767–1823), line-engraver, was born in London on 4 June 1767. Of his early career the only facts recorded are that he married at the age of eighteen, and was at one time engaged in engraving on metal for calico-printing, but during the last twenty years of his life he enjoyed a great reputation as an engraver of small book-illustrations. His plates after R. Smirke in the English editions of the ‘Arabian Nights,’ 1802, ‘Gil Blas,’ 1809, and ‘Don Quixote,’ 1818, were very successful; and his ‘Broken Jar,’ after Wilkie, one of the illustrations to Coxe's ‘Social Day,’ is a masterpiece of its kind. Other fine publications to which he contributed were Kearsley's edition of Shakespeare, Du Roveray's edition of Pope, Walker's ‘British Classics,’ Sharpe's ‘Classics,’ Suttaby's ‘Poets,’ and ‘Physiognomical Portraits.’ Warren was an active member of the Society of Arts and also of the Artists' Fund, of which he was president from 1812 to 1815. For some valuable improvements which he made in the preparation of steel plates for engraving he was awarded the large gold medal of the Society of Arts in 1823, but he did not live to receive it, dying suddenly at Wandsworth on 21 April of that year. He was buried at St. Sepulchre's, Newgate Street. A portrait of Warren, from a sketch by Mulready, is in Pye's ‘Patronage of British Art.’
Ambrose William Warren (1781?–1856), son of Charles Warren, born about 1781, practised line-engraving with ability, and examples of his work are found in the ‘Stafford Gallery,’ Cattermole's ‘Book of the Cartoons,’ the ‘Gem,’ 1830–1, and ‘Ancient Marbles in the British Museum.’ His most important single plates are ‘The Beggar's Petition,’ after Witherington, 1827, and ‘The New Coat,’ after Wilkie, 1832. He died in 1856.
[Gent. Mag. 1823, ii. 187; Pye's Patronage of British Art; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; list of members of the Artists' Annuity Fund.]
WARREN, Sir CHARLES (1798–1866), major-general, colonel of the 96th foot, born at Bangor on 27 Oct. 1798, was third son of John Warren (1766–1838), dean of Bangor, who was nephew of John Warren [q. v.], bishop of Bangor. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Crooke, M.D., of Preston, Lancashire. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, but, being offered by the Duke of York a commission in the infantry, he was gazetted ensign in the 30th foot on 24 Nov. 1814, and joined the depôt at Colchester on 24 Jan. 1815. He commanded a detachment from Ostend in the march of the Duke of Wellington's army to Paris after Waterloo, and entered Paris with the allied army.
In January 1816 Warren embarked for India, and served at Fort St. George, Madras, until his return to England in the summer of 1819. He was promoted to be lieutenant on 13 Nov. 1818. On 17 Aug. 1820 he exchanged into the 55th foot. In December 1821 he embarked with his regiment for the Cape of Good Hope, was promoted to be captain by purchase on 1 Aug. 1822, commanded a detachment of two companies on the Kaffir frontier from November 1824 to the end of 1825, and returned to England in 1827. During his service at the Cape he rode from Capetown to Grahamstown, and, among other expeditions into the interior, he journeyed across the Orange and Vaal rivers to Sitlahoo in company with Mr. Glegg of the Madras civil service, who published an account of it at the time. Warren visited
