and died along with about 110 other passengers and crew when the Amazon caught fire and sank on 4 January 1852 in the Bay of Biscay. Family On 11 January 1848 he married Matilda Jane, second daughter of Edward Grove, of Shenstone Park, Staffordshire. They had two sons, George and Piers. His brother, Major George Drought Warburton (1816–1857, named after his uncle George Drought of Glencarrig, County Wicklow), collaborated with him on Hochelaga, or England in the New World (1847), and The Conquest of Canada (1849). Another brother, Thomas, studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, while a sister, Sidney, was also a writer. Bibliography Fiction Nonfiction (with George Warburton) (posthumous; with George Warburton) References External links 1810 births 1852 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deaths due to ship fires People who died at sea Irish travel writers 19th-century travel writers People from County Offaly Irish male novelists 19th-century Irish novelists 19th-century male writers