Author: Warrington, George
Biography:
WARRINGTON, George (1744-1830: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Wrexham, Wales, on 14 Oct. 1744, the youngest son of George Warrington (1695-1770) and his wife Elizabeth Thornhill (1706-88), both minor gentry from Lancashire who had married in 1728. He was educated at Shrewsbury and St. John’s College Cambridge (matric. 1762). He entered the Church of England and was ordained deacon in 1769. He was canon at St. Asaph (1776-1830), Vicar of Eastyn, Flintshire (1778-1830) and Rector of Pleasley, Derbyshire (1793-1830). He married Mary Strudwick (1740-1802) on 13 Jan. 1768 at Overton, Cheshire. She was probably a distant relation on his mother’s side. They had at least ten children. Her father, Henry Strudwick Thornhill (1718-60), had owned the Pantre Pant estate in Jamaica, and she and George Warrington were later paid £3000 to relinquish their claims to it. He died on 1 Aug. 1830 at Wrexham. His only known published work, listed here, is an historical tale of a chieftain set in “the wild and beautiful tracts of Cumberland” in 1485. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Sept. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 10 Sept. 2022; CCEd 10 Sept. 2022; LBS; London Courier 4 Aug. 1830; GM Sept. 1830, 282) AA