Author: Ware, Henry
Biography:
WARE, Henry (1768/9-1835: Burke)
A descendent of the Anglo-Irish historian Sir James Ware (1594-1666), he was born in Castle Street, Dublin, the only son of the Rev. Henry Ware (d 1778) and his wife, Ann Mundy. His mother was the eldest daughter of MP Wrightson Mundy of Markeaton and his wife, Anne Burdett. His niece Elizabeth Chandos-Pole married George Anson, baron Byron, successor to Lord Byron (q.v.). In 1804, his sister Anne married the Rev. Samuel Crowther, vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street. He was gazetted cornet in the Royal Horse Guards Blue on 3 Oct. 1786 and major without purchase on 24 Oct. 1799. In about 1795 he married Mary Blake (q.v., “Mary Ware”), his senior by twenty-three-years. There were no children by the marriage. His book of poetry, Squibs and Crackers, was gratuitously mocked in MR as “stupid and vulgar … worthless.” A reviewer in CR commented on the book’s paper, “beautiful,” its type, “clear,” and its ink, “superfine.” Ware died, age 66, on 1 Dec. 1835 at Ware Hill House, Great Amwell, Hertsfordshire. He and his wife are buried in a tomb in the churchyard of St John the Baptist. In his will, he refers to his properties in Ireland and England. (PROB 11/1855; MR, 68 [1812], 219; CR 24 [1812], 328; Literary Panorama 11 [1812], 71; Spectator 288 [5 Dec. 1835], 1151; GM 169 [1840], 215; J. Burke, Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales [1851], 2: n.p.; V. B. Crowther-Benyon, “Notes on Some Family Relics of the Jacobite Revolution, 1745,” Archaeological Journal 75 [1918], 195-208) JC
Other Names:
- Major Ware, of Warehill, Herts.