DESTUTT DE TRACY, ANTOINE LOUISE, COUNT: see TRACY, ANTOINE LOUISE DESTUTT, COMTE DE.
DE TABLEY, JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WAR REN, 3rd BARON (1835-1895), English poet, eldest son of George Fleming Leicester (afterwards Warren), 2nd Baron De Tabley, was born on April 26, 1835, and died at Ryde on Nov. 22, 1895. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1856 with second classes in classics and in law and modern history. In the autumn of 1858 he went to Turkey as unpaid attache to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and two years later was called to the bar. In 1871 he removed to London, where he became a close friend of Tennyson for several years. From 1877 till his succession to the title in 1887 he lived in complete seclusion, but in 1892 he returned to London, and enjoyed a sort of renaissance of reputation and friendship.
De Tabley was at one time an authoiity on numismatics; he wrote two novels; published A Guide to the Study of Book Plates (188o); and the fruit of his careful researches in botany was printed posthumously in his elaborate Flora of Cheshire (1899). From time to time he published volumes of verse under various pseudonyms. On the publication of Philoctetes in 1866 De Tabley met with wide recognition. Philoctetes bore the initials "M.A.," which were interpreted as meaning Matthew Arnold. He at once disclosed his identity. In 1867 he published Orestes, in 187o Rehearsals and in 1873 Searching the Net. These last two bore his own name, John Leicester Warren. The Soldier of For tune (1876), a drama on which he had bestowed much careful labour, proved a complete failure. The success of his Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893), encouraged him to publish a secOnd series in 1895, the year of his death. His posthumous poems were collected in 1902. The characteristics of De Tabley's poetry are pre-eminently magnificence of style, derived from close study of Milton, sonority, dignity, weight and colour. He was always a student of the classic poets, and drew much of his inspiration directly from them.
See a sketch by Sir Edmund Gosse in his Critical (1896) .