2 Quotes & Sayings By Hg Warrender

H.G. Warrender (1867-1944) was born in Newcastle, County Down, Ireland. He was the youngest of four children of an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Robert Warrender. He was educated at two independent schools in England, before reading medicine at Cambridge University, where he graduated with an MB in 1891 Read more

He qualified for the Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1892 and retired from general practice in 1902 to undertake his first book, The New Zealanders: Their Land and People, published that same year. It was followed by The Story of the Australian Colonies (1905), based on his travels to Australia and New Zealand. Warrender became interested in Irish history and wrote Irish Nationalism (1920).

After serving as President of the Society for Psychical Research from 1920 until his death he published a second book on this subject, The Aetherial Double (1934). This work gave a detailed description of a number of cases that he had investigated during his lifetime. His last book was a biography of his parents entitled The Life and Times of Robert and Mary Warrender (1940).

Throughout his life he corresponded with many eminent people including Lord Macaulay, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Sir Henry Sleeman and Sir George Trevelyan. He died on 11th June 1944 in Dublin.