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4 p. 222), shews that, in 1726, Warburton, then an attorney at Newark, was intimate with Concanen, and an associate in the attacks made on Pope's fame and talents. In 1724, Concanen published a volume of "Miscellaneous Poems, original and translated," by himself and others.

physician, and a learned writer, was descended from an ancient Irish family, and born in the county of Kerry, about the year 1666. His family being of the Popish persuasion, he had not the benefit of receiving an education in the established seminaries of that kingdom. Having determined on the study of physic, about 1686 he went for that purpose to France, and resided for some time at the university of Montpelier, from whence he repaired to Paris, where he greatly distinguished himself by his proficiency in anatomy and chemistry. He declared himself desirous of travelling, and as there were two sons of the high chancellor of Poland then on the point of returning to their native country, it was, thought expedient that they should undertake that long journey under the care and inspection of Connor. He accordingly conducted them safely to Venice, where he found the honourable William Legge, afterwards Earl of Dartmouth, dangerously ill of a fever; him he recovered, and accompanied to Padua, from whence he went through Tyrol, Bavaria, and Austria, down the Danube to Vienna, and after having made some stay at the court of the Emperor Leopold, passed through Moravia and Silesia to Cracow, and thence, in eight days, to Warsaw, where the king, John Sobieski, kept his court, and where he was well received; and soon afterwards, through the recommendation of the Venetian ambassador, was appointed physician to that monarch. This was accounted an extraordinary preferment for so young a man, and in so short a time, for it happened in the beginning of the year 1694, when Connor had not attained his twenty-ninth year.