Background
The third son of George Warburton of Aughrim, and younger brother of Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton, known as Eliot, he was born at Wicklow.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
The third son of George Warburton of Aughrim, and younger brother of Bartholomew Elliott George Warburton, known as Eliot, he was born at Wicklow.
He was educated at the Royal Military College, Woolwich, and served in the Royal Artillery from June 1833.
In 1837 Warburton was sent with a detachment of the royal artillery to assist the Auxiliary Legion in Spain, and was seriously wounded in action. In the middle of July 1844 he embarked from Chatham for Canada. He returned from Canada in 1846, and was later stationed at Landguard Fort, near Harwich in Essex.
In November 1854 Warburton retired from the army as major on full pay, and resided at Henley House, Frant, Sussex.
On 28 March 1857 he was elected by a large majority as an independent liberal member for Harwich. Apparently subject to pains, he shot himself through the head at Henley House on 23 October 1857, aged 41.
He was buried at Iffley, near Oxford. Warburton married at Saint George"s, Hanover Square, on 1 June 1853, Elizabeth Augusta Bateman-Hanbury, third daughter of William Hanbury Bateman, 1st Baron Bateman, and had an only daughter, who became the wife of Lord Edward Spencer-Churchill.
17th United Kingdom Parliament.