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George Warburton
1816–1857
An Irish soldier, politician, and writer, he is best remembered for vivid books about Canada written in the mid-19th century. His life was short, but it touched military service, travel writing, and public life on both sides of the Atlantic.
2 Audiobooks
The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2
by George Warburton
The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1
by George Warburton
About the author
Born in County Wicklow on June 2, 1816, George Drought Warburton was an Irish army officer who later turned his experiences and interests into books. He was educated at the Royal Military College at Woolwich, served in the Royal Artillery, and was reported to have been badly wounded while serving in Spain during the Carlist conflict.
Warburton became known as a writer on Canada. He collaborated with his older brother Eliot Warburton on Hochelaga; or, England in the New World and later wrote The Conquest of Canada, a history that helped build his reputation with Victorian readers interested in North America. He also entered politics and, in 1857, briefly served as an independent liberal member of Parliament for Harwich.
His life ended tragically on October 23, 1857, at Frant in Sussex, England. Even so, his work remains of interest for the way it blends travel, history, and a 19th-century British view of Canada and empire.