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- Coloniser of the Leeward Islands, for which he was knighted in 1629
Warner's sons and grandsons established themselves in the British West Indies: Sir Thomas Warner of Barbados, Col. Philip Warner, Governor of Antigua, William Warner of Dominica, who was known as "Indian Warner" on account of his Carib blood, and Col. Edward Warner, who arrived in Trinidad in 1807 and purchased lands.
Charles Warner, born in 1805, was the only son of Col. Edward Warner. Charles decided to settle in Trinidad after a visit with his cousin Ashton Warner, who was Chief Justice of Trinidad during the governorship of Sir Ralph Woodford (1813 - 1828). Charles became one of the most prominent Attorney Generals in the early history of Trinidad, serving from 1844 to 1870.
He was thrice married first, to Sarah, daughter of Walter Snelling of Dorchester; secondly to Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Payne, of Surrey; and, thirdly, to a lady who afterwards married Sir George March (Gal. State. Papers Airier. and IV. Indies, 1675-61 p. 321). By his second wife be had two sons, and a daughter who was buried at Putney on 29 Dec. 1635. The eldest son, EDWARD WARNER (1632 - 1640 (??Dates of his governorship?)), was deputy-governor of St Kitts when Sir Thomas went to England. He was made by his father in 1632 the first English governor of Antigua. His wife and two children were carried off from the island in an incursion of the Caribs in 1640. A local tradition, embodied in the Legend of Ding a Dong Nook, said that the governor pursued the Caribs to Dominica and brought back his wife and one child, but afterwards, under the influence of jealousy, imprisoned her in a keep built for the purpose in a lonely nook. The date of Edward Warner's death is uncertain. Dutertre, in his Histoire des Antilles speaks highly of his personal qualities.
Thomas also had a long relationship with a Carib woman who bore him several children.
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