WARBURTON, ELIOT [BARTHOLOMEW ELLIOTT GEORGE] (1810-1852), British traveller and novelist, was born in 18ro near Tullamore, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity college, Cam bridge, and was called to the Irish bar in 1837. He made a hit with his first book, The Crescent and the Cross, an account of his travels in 1843 in Turkey, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. 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. Warburton was on his way to
explore the isthmus of Darien, when the ship in which he sailed was destroyed by fire (Jan. 4, 1852).