RICHARD WARNER (1711-1775).
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"by the late Bonnell Thornton esquire is inscribed as an instance
"of his sense of the uninterrupted friendship with which he
"has long favoured him as well as in particular of his kind
"advice in the prosecution of it by his much obliged humble
"servant Richard Warner." The fourteen plays translated
by Warner are the Captives, the Twin Brothers, the Discovery,
the Apparition, the Cheat, Conjugal Fidelity, the Casket, the
Parasite, the Churl, the Carthaginian, the Courtezans, the
Persian, the Ass-Dealer and the Lots. There is at Idsworth
a copy of the complete work presented by Warner to Anne Clarke,
sister of Jervoise Clarke Jervoise. She lived at Belmont and
bequeathed all her private property to her favourite nephew,
the Rev. Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, the father of the present
baronet.
It was before the issue of his continuation of Thornton's
Plautus that our Author printed the work with which we are
mainly concerned, the Plantae Woodfordienses, the preface
to which bears date July 1st, 1771.
It is worthy of note that the book was never published,
but only "Printed for the Author" ; and from its scarcity we
may infer that the impression was but a small one.
On the 11th of April, 1775, this kindly and industrious
scholar and gentleman died, and on the 20th he was buried in
Woodford churchyard under an altar-tomb, covered with a grey-
marble slab, on the north side of the chancel. The inscription
on the tomb was :—
" Here lieth interred
the body of
Richard Warner, Esquire,
of Woodford Row,
in this county,
son of John Warner, Esquire,
of the City of London,
banker,
who departed this life
April the XIth, MDCCLXXV, aged LXIV years."
Nevertheless, the Woodford register contains the entry
"Richard Warner, aged 62, buried April 20, 1775."
(To be continued).