WARREN, John Byrne Leicester, 3a Bann; DE TABLEY, English poet: b. Tabley House, Cheshire, 26 April 1835; d. Ryde, Isle of Wight, 22 Nov. 1895. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, was called to the bar and after a short diplomatic experience devoted himself to literature. His life was passed in retirement, although he was the personal friend of Tennyson, Browning, Gladstone and other eminent men of his day. His poetry, which re veals many excellencies of style as well as depth of thought, appeals to the cultivated few, but not to the general public. His earliest work appeared with the signature 6G. F. Preston( (1858-62), and later he used the pseudonym (William Lancaster." After 1873 his work ap peared with his own name, John Leicester War ren. In 1893 he published 'Poems Dramatic and Lyrical by Lord De Tabley,' whit% met with qualified success, and in 1895 a second series appeared. Amcmg his other volumes of verse are (Pra-terita) (1870) ; (Philoctetes) (1867); (Orestes' (1868) ; (Rehearsals' (1870); and (Searching the Net> 1873). He also wrote two novels, (A Screw Loose' (1868); (Ropes of Sand' (1869).
WAFtREN, John Collins, American sur geon, son of John Warren (q.v.) : b. Boston, Mass., 1 Aug. 1778; d. there, 4 May 1856. He was graduated at Harvard University in 1797 and later studied medicine in London, at Edin burgh University and in Paris. He returned to Boston in 1802, and finding his father in greatly impaired heahh he took over a considerable part of his practice. He became joint editor
of the Monthly Anthology in 1803; was adjunct professor of anatomy and surg,ery at Harvard in 1806-15, and professor in those branches in 1815-47, succeeding his father. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts General Hospital and was its chief surgeon the re mainder of his life. He performed the first public operation in which ether was used as an aniesthesia in October 1846; he also performed the first operation for strangulated hernia in this country; and introduced Hunter's opera tion for aneurism. He was a voluminous writer, drawing upon a vast fund of personal experi ence as a surgeon. He was greatly interested in palaeontology and owned a fine oollection, se cunng for it ui 1845 the most perfect specimen of a mastodon skeleton in existence. His col lection of anatomical specimens formed the nu cleus of the °Warren Museum) of the Har vard Medical School. He was one of the foun ders of the American Medical Association. Au thor of