Charles Warren (MP)
Charles Warren (19 March 1764 – 12 August 1829) was an English barrister and politician, judge and amateur cricketer.
Life
A son of
In 1792, Warren signed a declaration by the Society of the Friends of the People.[6] He was called as a defence witness in the 1798 trial of Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet.[7]
Legal career
An Old Bailey barrister, Warren also took up a bankruptcy commission.[8] He was chancellor to the diocese of Bangor from 1797, for the rest of his life.[9]
Warren was made
Political career
In parallel with his position as a judge of the Welsh judicature, Warren was a Member of Parliament, for Dorchester. An English judge could not sit in the House of Commons; but the situation for a Welsh judge was otherwise. This and other differences in the judicatures were under debate in parliament from the time he took up his post as Chief Justice of Chester, Warren defending the status quo.[13]
The political patron at Dorchester who brought Warren in as a candidate in 1819 was
Legacy
Papers concerning the Chester Circuit went in 1847, after Warren's death, to the
Family
Warren married Amelia Sloper of Sundridge, Kent on 9 July 1813, at the house of Lady Jones in South Audley Street, London.[17]
Cricket
As a keen amateur cricketer, Warren was mainly associated with Middlesex teams.[18] He played for the Gentlemen in the inaugural Gentlemen v Players match in 1806,[19] and made 33 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1795 to 1826.
Along with John Tanner, Warren was the last 18th century player to retire from first-class cricket, in his case at the age of 62.
References
- ^ a b "Warren, Charles (1764–1829), of 15 Bedford Square, Mdx. and Sundridge, Kent, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 27 August 2015.
- ^ "Warren, Charles (WRN780C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Matthew, H. C. G., Warren, Sir Charles, 28775
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Fellows Details". Royal Society. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ Thomas MUIR (Advocate.) (1793). The Trial of Thomas Muir ... The Second Edition Enlarged & Corrected. With an Elegant Portrait ... To which is Annexed, an Appendix, Etc. Edinburgh. p. 13.
- ^ Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine (1870). Speeches of Thomas Lord Erskine. Reeves & Turner. p. 441.
- ISBN 978-0-8078-2806-9.
- ISBN 978-0-8078-2806-9.
- ^ The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence. John Richards. 1838. p. 509.
- ISBN 978-0-19-964273-1.
- ^ The European Magazine, and London Review. Philological Society of London. 1820. p. 180.
- ^ Sir Walter Scott (1823). The Edinburgh Annual Register. John Ballantyne and Company. pp. 111–2.
- ^ "Dorchester 1820–1832, History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Joseph Brooks Yates (1856). The Rights and Jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Chester, the Earls Palatine, the Chamberlain, and Other Officers: And Disputes Concerning the Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer with the City of Chester, &c., Now First Printed from the Original Manuscript in the Possession of the Editor. Chetham Society. p. 35.
- ^ Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. 1846. p. 11.
- ^ Chapman, John Henry; Armytage, George John (1886). "The register book of marriages belonging to the parish of St. George, Hanover square, in the county of Middlesex". Internet Archive. London: Mitchell & Hughes, printers. p. 69. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Lillywhite's Cricket Scores and Biographies of Celebrated Cricketers. Vol. 1 (1744-1826). John Lillywhite.
- ^ "Gentlemen v Players match". CricketArchive. 8 July 1806.