WARBURTON, ELIOT BARTHOLOMEW GEORGE, author of the Crescent and the Cross, was sprung from an old Cheshire family, who had settled early in the county Galway, Ireland, where he first saw the light in 1810. After graduating at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar, but soon ceased to practise. He first became known to the world in 1845 as the author of the brilliant book of Eastern travel entitled the Crescent and the Cross. This work had reached the 15th edition in 1859. Since then the author wrote numerous works of more or less note, such as Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers; the Life of Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough; Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries; Hochelaga; Darien, or the Merchant Prince, &c. He lost his life in the ill-fated ship Amazon, which was burnt when on her voyage to America, off the Land's End, on the 4th January 1852.