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38 in the autumn of 1767. Next year he was dead, and the comment was that "fate had verified his own observation that arthritic complaints are never to be totally cured." Many letters by him are in the Newcastle correspondence at the British Museum; two are printed among the correspondence of Garrick. His son knew Garrick well and was much attached to the great actor.

"Jack" was admitted at St. Paul's School, London, on 30 March, 1747, at the age of 11, when his father was living on Bread Street hill, and was a Pauline exhibitioner at the school in 1755. Warner, according to F. [no doubt William Fiend, who suffered for his opinions at the hands of Jesus College, Cambridge] the writer of his memoir in the Monthly Magazine for 1800, pp. 167—9, went from school to Lisbon to be trained in commercial life but soon found the life of a city-office uncongenial to his disposition and returned to England. From 1755 to 1760 he was a Perry exhibitioner from the school to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had been admitted sizar under the tutorship of the rev. Stephen Whisson, on 6 November, 1754 his father being then resident at Lewisham. His degrees were B.A. 1758, M.A. 1761, and he proceeded as D.D. in 1773. Between 1758 and 1761 he was ordained in the English Church. He had the reputation, says Jack Taylor, of being a "good Greek, Latin, and French scholar."

When the Rev. Dr. James Trail, by his appointment to the bishopric of Down and Connor, resigned his livings of West Ham and Horslydown, Warner was appointed, on 10 October 1765 by the crown to the vicarage of West Ham, and his jovial friend, the rev. Richard Penneck of the British Museum, to the rectory of Horslydown. On this Essex benefice he remained until 1775, and in November 1768 his mother and sisters came to dwell with him in the parsonage house. A good son and brother he bore, for the