[George John Warren; Baron, the fifth of the title]. English scholar and philanthropist, born at Stapleford Hall, on the 22nd of June 1803. He was elected to Parliament in 1830, and supported the Reform Bill. On the death of his father in 1835, he went to the Upper House. Deprived of the incentive to political activity by this translation, he devoted himself to literary and philanthropic labors. In the former his exhaustive studies of Dante’s works engaged him for over twenty years. In 1895 he produced a romance, Febùs e Breùs, a notable achievement. His philanthropic spirit was evinced during the cotton famine in Lancashire, caused by the Civil War in the United States. His memory is also preserved in America by the town of Mount Vernon, OH, which was named in his honor, he having contributed largely to the fund for the endowment of Kenyon College, an Episcopal institution of learning at that place, the funds having been collected by Bishop Chase while on a visit to England. He died on the 31st of May 1866.
