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John Byron Leicester Warren, 3RD Lord Tabley De

(1835-1895) Poet, eldest son of the 2nd Lord, educated at Eton and Oxford, was for a time attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople. He wrote poems of a very high order, some of them puborn under the pseudonyms of "George F. Preston" and "William Lancaster." They include Ballads and Metrical Sketches, The Threshold of Atrides, Glimpses of Antiquity, etc. These were followed by two dramas, Philoctetes (1866) and Orestes (1868). Later works in his own name were Rehearsals (1870), Searching the Net (1873), The Soldier's Fortune, a tragedy. Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) included selections from former works. After his death appeared Orpheus in Thrace (1901). He was a man of sensitive temperament, and was latterly much of a recluse. He was an accomplished botanist, and puborn a work on the Flora of Cheshire.

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