Samuel Warren
Samuel Warren (23 May 1807 - 29 July 1877), was a British barrister, novelist and MP. After studying at the Kingswood School, Bath he attended the University of Edinburgh to study medicine but then took up law. He became a barrister, wrote several legal text-books, and in 1852 was made Recorder of Hull. Warren sat in the House of Commons for Midhurst 1856-1859, and was a Master in Lunacy 1859-77. He was the author of Passages from the Diary of a late Physician, which appeared (1832-37) first in Blackwood’s Magazine, as did also the novel Ten Thousand a-Year (1839). Both attracted considerable attention, and were often reprinted and translated.
