Charles Warren (19 March 1764 – 12 August 1829) was an English barrister and politician, judge and amateur

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Life

A son of Richard Warren, and nephew of

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, he was brother to John Warren the Dean of Bangor,

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the physician, and Frederick Warren; and so uncle to John's children Sir Charles Warren, and

the mathematician. He was educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1780, matriculating in 1784, graduating B.A. in 1785, and finishing M.A. in 1788. He was a Fellow of Jesus College from 1786 to 1813. Entering

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in 1781, he was

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in 1790. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790. In 1792, Warren signed a declaration by the Society of the Friends of the People. He was called as a defence witness in the 1798 trial of

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Legal career

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barrister, Warren also took up a bankruptcy commission. He was chancellor to the

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from 1797, for the rest of his life. Warren was made

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in 1816. He was appointed

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in 1819, and was the last to hold the post: between his death in 1829, and the abolition of the position by the

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, the functions were carried out by Thomas Jervis his junior, as Puisne Justice of Chester. In April 1820 he presided over the sedition trial of

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and Joseph Harrison, sitting with Samuel Marshall.

Political career

In parallel with his position as a judge of the Welsh judicature, Warren was a Member of Parliament, for . An English judge could not sit in the House of Commons; but the situation for a Welsh judge was otherwise. This and other differences in the judicatures were under debate in parliament from the time he took up his post as Chief Justice of Chester, Warren defending the status quo. The political patron at Dorchester who brought Warren in as a candidate in 1819 was

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, known as a supporter of the Tory administration of Lord Liverpool. Warren was not opposed in the general election of 1820 caused by the death of George III. His reputation, as "ageing and discredited", had slumped, and there was some expectation that he would retire in 1824, when

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was waiting in the wings. He left it to the general election of 1826, however.

Legacy

Papers concerning the Chester Circuit went in 1847, after Warren's death, to the Public Record Office. Peter Stafford Carey and David Williams transferred the papers after Amelia Warren had also died.

Family

Warren married Amelia Sloper of

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on 9 July 1813, at the house of Lady Jones in South Audley Street, London.

Cricket

As a keen amateur cricketer, Warren was mainly associated with Middlesex teams. He played for the Gentlemen in the inaugural Gentlemen v Players match in 1806, and made 33 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1795 to 1826. Along with John Tanner, Warren was the last 18th century player to retire from first-class cricket, in his case at the age of 62.

References

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