- Elliot Warburton
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name = Elliot Warburton
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birthname = Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton
birthdate = 1810
birthplace = Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland
deathdate = 4 January 1852
deathplace = At sea (off Land's End, England)
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nationality = Irish
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subject =Travel writing , historical fiction
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notableworks = The Crescent and the Cross
spouse = Matilda Jane Grove
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relatives = George Drought Warburton (brother)
influences = A. W. Kinglake
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Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton (1810–1852), usually known as Eliot Warburton, Irish traveller and novelist, was born near
Tullamore ,Ireland .cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition|pages=p. 440|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|id= ISBN 0-7171-2945-4]He was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge , and was called to the Irish Bar in 1837. He contracted lasting friendships with Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton) and AW Kinglake, and gave up his practice as abarrister for travel and literature. His first travel articles were published in the Dublin University Magazine, where the editor,Charles Lever persuaded him to make them into a book. This became his first book, "The Crescent and the Cross", an account of his travels in 1843 inGreece ,Turkey ,Syria ,Palestine andEgypt , and which fairly divided public attention with Kinglake's "Eothen", which appeared in the same year, 1844. The book was a huge success and went into 18 editions.cite book|last=Boylan|first= Henry |year=1998|title=A Dictionary of Irish Biography, 3rd Edition|pages=p. 440|location=Dublin|publisher= Gill and MacMillan|id= ISBN 0-7171-2945-4]Interest was centred in the East at the time, and Warburton had popular sympathy with him in his eloquent advocacy of the annexation of Egypt; but, apart from this consideration, the spirited narrative of his adventures and the picturesque sketches of Eastern life and character were more than sufficient to justify the success of the book.
His most substantial work was a "Memoir of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers" (1849), enriched with original documents, and written with eloquent partiality for the subject. This was followed in 1850 by "Reginald Hastings", a novel, the scenes of which were laid in the same period of civil war, and, in 1851, by another historical novel, "Darien, or The Merchant Prince". He was also for a time the editor of
The Gentleman's Magazine .In 1851 Warburton was sent by the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company to explore the isthmus of
Darién and to negotiate friendly relations between the company and the local Indian tribes. He sailed on this mission aboard the steamship RMS "Amazon", and died along with 141 other passengers and crew when the "Amazon" caught fire and sank on 4 January 1852 about convert|110|mi|km west-south-west of Scilly.His brother, Major George Drought Warburton (1816-1857), collaborated with him on "Hochelaga, or England in the New World" (1847), and "The Conquest of Canada" (1849).
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*cite book | last = Kent | first = Charles | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Footprints on the Road | publisher =Chapman and Hall | date = 1864 | location = | pages = pp. 254-255 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =
*cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Sorrow on the Sea: An Account of the Loss of the Steam-ship "Amazon", by Fire | publisher = J. Mason | date = 1852 | location = | pages = p. 14 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =
* [http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=RMS_Amazon&oldid=593294 RMS Amazon, in Wikisource, The Free Library. Retrieved 18:35, September 19, 2008]
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