The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

Obituarg.

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THE DEATH OF MAJOR WARBURTON last Friday
evening was attended with very painful circum-
stances. The deceased destroyed himself in a fit of
temporary insanity, brought on by physical pain.
From the evidence given at the coroner's inquest, it
appears that Major Warburton on the previous even-
ing had suffered a severe attack of vomiting. His head
became affected. Towards morning he was visited
by a medical man, who, not liking appearances, de-
sired that he might be watched. Shortly afterwards
be rose from his bed, staggered into his dressing-
room, and, snatching up a pistol kept in the room,
blew out his brains. Evidence was given at the in
quiry to show that in his domestic life Major War-
burton was exceedingly happy, and that he had only
recently expressed his thankfulness at the happiness
of bis life. At the same time, he was subject to
attacks of severe pain in the head. Major War-
burton was well known in the literary world as the
author of " Hochelaga ; or, Euglaod in the New
World." He was a member of a most ancient and
respectab;e Irish family, being a younger son of the
late George Warburton, Esq., of Augbrim, county
Galway, and of Southfield, in the county of Somer-
set, who for many years held the post of Inspector-
General of Constabulary in Ireland. His mother
was Anne, sister of the late Colonel William Acton,
some time M.P. for county Wicklow. The deceased
gentleman was born in 1816, and received his early
education at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, from
which in due course of time he obtained a commis-
sion in the Royal Artillery ; at the Lime of his death,
he was a major on the retired list of that service.
Having unsuccessfully contested the borough of
Harwich in 1852 against Mr. D. Waddington, he was
elected after a short contest at the last general elec-
tion. He was a strong supporter of Lord Palmers-
ton's general policy, and is described as being " in
favour of an extension of the suffrage, though op-
posed to the ballot and to the repeal of the May-
nooth grant." In 1853 he was married to the Hon.
Elizabeth Augusta Hanbury, daughter of the first
Lord Bateman, and sister of the present peer. His
eldest brother was the late Mr. Eliot Warburton,
who was lost in the unfortunate Amazon ; and another
brother, the Rev. William Parsons Warburton, one
of her Majesty's inspectors of schools, is married to
a stepdaughter of Lord John Russell.
THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL GATEWARD DAVIS, D.D.,
Bishop of Antigua, expired suddenly, from a disease
of the heart, at his residence, 2, Bryanstone street,
Portman-square, on Sunday last. Dr. Davis was
educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he
graduated in 1811, and after filling various offices in
the Church at borne, was, with four other colonial
bishops, consecrated in Westminster Abbey in 1842,
by the late Bishop of London, acting under s com-
mission from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
THE HON. EDMUND Primps, who died at his resi-
dence in Wilton crescent on Tuesday last, in his
forty-ninth year, was the third son of Henry, first
Earl of Mulgrave, and consequently a younger
brother of the present Marquis of Normanby, and of
the lion. Colonel C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her
Majesty's Privy Purse, and Treasurer of the House-
hold to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The
deceased was born in 1808, and married, in 1838,
Maria Louisa, widow of the Hon. Charles Francis
Norton, brother of Lord Grantley, and eldest daughter
of the late Major General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.8.,
sometime Governor of Nova Scotia and Ceylon. He
was called to the bar at Lincolu's•inn in 1835, and
had held for some years the Recordership of Don-
caster, which is vacant by his decease.
LADY GRAHAM died on the 23th inst., at the
Pavilion, on the Parade, at West Cowes, after a long
and painful illue.s, in the sixty-fourth year of her
age. As her ladyship's dissolution had been almost
hourly expected for the past month, all her family
had assembled round her, Sir James, the Hon. Mrs.
Duncombe, and the Misses Graham, being with her
in her last moments. By her ladyship's particular
wish, her body will be deposited in a vault at
Whippinghani, Isle of Wight.

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