Genealogical Account of a Branch of the Descendants of Mark Warner, Grandson of William Warner, Who Came from England to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in the Year 1637

by Oliver Warner

Excerpt from Genealogical Account of a Branch of the Descendants of Mark Warner, Grandson of William Warner, Who Came From England to Ipswich, Massachusetts, in the Year 1637 I. Miriam, b. February 25th, 1808; d. February 2lst, 1819, hav ing for some time previous to her sickness and death given strong and satisfactory evidence of Christian character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

24 pages, Hardcover

Published August 29, 2018

About the author

Oliver Martin Wilson Warner was a well-known British naval historian and writer.

Warner was educated at Denstone College and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1926 he succeeded Frank Swinnerton as staff reader at the publishing house of Chatto and Windus. In addition to his work as staff reader he also worked on the company's advertising material. As a young man he made contributions to magazines such as The Spectator and Time and Tide, some of which were later reproduced in his 1947 book Captains and Kings. In 1939 he published an account of his visit to an "unworldly" relative in Canada, entitled Uncle Lawrence. During the Second World War he joined the Admiralty secretariat, initially serving in the Commission and Warrant (C.W.) branch[citation needed] before serving on the war artists advisory committee. He later served as secretary to the naval honours and awards committee.

After the war he became deputy director of publications of the British Council, where he remained until his retirement in 1963. he worked thereafter at Chatto and Windus for another year before concentrating on writing. By the time of his death he had more than twenty books in print. He married twice, first to Dorothea Blanchard who died in 1937, by whom he had one daughter. He was married secondly to Elizabeth Strahan, with whom he had one son and one daughter.

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