Ware, Henry, Jr., D.D., a Unitarian clergyman, eldest sou of the jjreceding, was born at Hingham, Mass., April 21, 1794. He was educated at I'liillips Academy, Andovcr, and at Harvard College, from which he gradu- ated in 1812. During the next two years he taught in the academy at Exeter, N. W., spending much of his leisure lime in the study of theology; and during the latter part of this period he conducted the jniblic services of a Unitarian societj^ in Exeter by performing the de- votional part of the service and reading a printed ser- mon. In 1814 he returned to Cambridge to study the- ology as a resident graduate of tlie university, and was appointed sub-librarian of the college, which office he held one year. He was called to the pastorate of the Second Church in Boston, and was ordained and install- ed .)an. 1, 1817. In tliis relation he remained until the autumn of 1830. In 1819 he became editor of the ChrL^- tian Disciple, and remained in that office until 1822. On account of declining health jMr. Ware desired to re- sign his charge in 1829; but his Cluirch and congrega- tion, not willing to lose his services, chose as colleague pastor Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, upon whom should devolve the burden of the active pastoral labor. In Oc- tober, 1830, Mr. Ware removed to Cambridge to enter upon the diuies of professor of pulpit eloquence and the pastoral care, to which he had lately been elected. In 1842, on account of feeble health, he resigned his pro- fessorship and removed to Framingham, where he died, Sept, 22, 1843. Among his published works are the fol- lowing: Discourses on the Offices and Character of Jesus Christ (1825) : — Sermons on Small, Sins (1827) : — On the Formation of the Christian Character (1831) : — The Life of the Saviour (1832) : — several single Sermons, Essays, and Poems: — and Memoirs of Oherliii, Noah Worcester, Dr. Joseph Priestley, Nathan Parker, and otliers. See his Select Writings, by Rev. Chaniller Robbins (Bost. 1846-47,4 vols.) ; Ware [.John], Memoir of Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., T).D. (ibid. 1846, 2 vols.) ; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pidpit, viii, 472 sq.
Warham, William, D.D., LL.D., an eminent Eng- lish prelate, was born at Okeley, in Hampshire, about 14.50. He was educated at Winchester School and at New College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 147.5. He remained at Oxford until 14HS. having in the meantime taken holy orders, and tlu'u, it is believed, was collated to some living in the Churcli. Slu>rtly af- ter this, he is found practicing as an advocate in the Court of Arches, and acting as principal or moderator of the Civil Law .School of the parish of St. Edward's, Oxford. In 1493 he was sent liy Henry VII as a joint envoy to the duchess of Burgundy, to complain of her countenance to the pretender Perkin "Warbeck. He was
master of the rolls from 1494 to 1502; joint envoy to Maximilian of Burgundy in 1,501-2; became keeper of the great seal Aug. 11,1502; lord chancellor, Jan. 1, 1503; bishop of London in 1503; archbisho]) of Canterbury, March 9, 1504; and chancellor of Oxford University soon after. He was an iiUimate friend of Erasmus; a rival of Fox, bishop of Winchester; and, later, a rival of cardinal Wolsey, with whom he had many conten- tions concerning jurisdiction. He opposed the marriage of Catharine of Aragou with Henry VIII. but officiated at the ceremony in .June, 1509; and resigned the great seal to Wolsey, Dec. 22, 1515. During liis latter years he drew some discredit upon himself by his connection with the affair of the Maid of Kent, to whose preten- sions he lent some support. He died at St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, Aug. 23, 1,532.
"Warner, Aaron, D.D., a Congregational minister, W.1S born at Northampton, Mass., Oct. 20, 1794. After graduating from Williams College in 1815, he entered Audover Theological Seminary, from which he gradu- ated four years afterwards. He was city missionary iu Charleston, S. C, from 1819 to 1822, and part of the time was .acting pastor of the Circular Church in that city. At Salem, Mass., he was ordained as an evangel- ist, Sept. 25, 1823; and a year after he was installed pastor of the Second Church in IMedford, which he served until 1832. From February, 1835, to Novemlier, 1843, he was professor of sacred rhetoric in the Gilmauton Theological Seminary. In January of the following year he was made professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature in Amherst College, retaining this position until 1853; after wliich, and until his death, May 14, 1876, he resided in Amherst without charge. Dr. Warner w.as a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1838. See Cony, tluarterly, 1877, p. 427.
Warner, Ferdinando, LL.D., an English clergy- man and vohuninous writer, was born in 1703. He studied some time at Jesus College, Cambridge, but is not recorded among its graduates ; became vicar of Ronde, Wiltshire, in 1730 ; rector of .St. Michael Queen- hithe, London, in 1746; and, in addition, rector of Barnes, in Surrey, in 1758. He died of gout about 1767. Among bis published works are the following: System of Divin- ity and Moixdity (Lond. 1750) : — Rational Defence of the English Reformation (1752): — An Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sac- raments (1754) : — Ecclesiastical History of England from the Earliest Accounts to the Eighteenth Century (1756- 57) : — Memoirs of the Life of Sir Thomas More (1758) : — The History of Ireland (1763) : — and IIistoi-y of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland from 1641 to 1660 (1767). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v.