In 2016 I wrote a Post on Warburton Meyer Pike, an explorer in British Colombia. I was particularly interested in where the Warburton name came from. It was from his grandmother Anne Warburton, who married William Pike. I received a couple of interesting comments.
One from John Rowley told me the interesting story of Anne’s father Jacob Warburton, a renowned potter, and friend of Josiah Wedgwood. Anne and William’s marriage illustrated a link between the potters of Burslem and their suppliers of clay from Dorset. I included John’s comment in a Post in 2018.
A second comment from Mike Dunham concerned a couple of sources that also attributed translations of Dante to the explorer. It seemed unlikely at the time as the dates of the translations were too early in the explorer’s life, and were more likely to belong to the explorer’s uncle, also called Warburton Pike. However there was no proof.
Now Russ Spera has sent me images from a book on Dante translations that firmly attributes the translations to the elder Warburton Pike, and even addresses the incorrect attributions to the explorer. The images are below:
It covers the first part of the entry on Warburton Pike (1818-82) a translator of Dante.
It covers the second part of the entry on Warburton Pike (1818-82) a translator of Dante.
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