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 230 WARREN. Richard Warren was bom on the thirteenth of December, 1731, at Cavendish, in Suffolk, of which place his father, Dr. Richard Warren, Arch- deacon of Suffolk, was the rector. This divine was conspicuous in his time ; he was one of the antagonists of Bishop Hoadly in the controversy respecting the Eucharist, and edited the Greek commentary of Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Our physician was the third of his sons : his early education was obtained at the public school of Bury St. Edmund's. In 1748, after the death of his father, he was transferred to Jesus College, Cambridge. Warren was one of those rare characters, which distinguish them- selves equally during the period of education and in the more trying scenes of mature life. At this moment his means of support were scanty, and the prejudices which then prevailed among certain leading members of the university were not calcu- lated to encourage or smooth the progress of the son of an able Tory. These distinctions of party have now happily disappeared from our univer- sities, Young Warren overcame every diliiculty of his position ; his name is the fourth on the list of wrajiglers in the year of his degree. He obtained two prizes for Latin prose composition in two successive years. On obtaining a fellow- ship of his college, the church was probably sug-