Warburton Pike
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Warburton Pike a British explorer of British Columbia and the Canadian Arctic. Pike was born in Wareham, Dorset
in 1861 and he committed suicide in the sea at Bournemouth (UK) in 1915 after being refused entry into the army. He was named after his grandfather's friend Jacob Warburton of New Hall Pottery. His father (John William Pike) a ball clay merchant died in 1869 making Warburton and his siblings orphans. His mother was Mary Mayer (1827–1866)- daughter of Thomas Mayer of Longport Pottery. Warburton attended Rugby school and then Brasenose College Oxford where he became a close friend of Earl Haig, the future field marshal. He inherited a fortune as a young man. He was often not the first European to visit an area but was often the first to write prose about the areas that he traveled. There is a mountain named for him on Saturna Island
near Vancouver Island
. There is a Memorial to him at Dease Lake near Cassiar
on the British Columbian mainland while his grave is under a plain little stone cross in a Bournemouth (UK) Public Cemetery.
Wareham, Dorset
Wareham is an historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles southwest of Poole.-Situation and geography:...
in 1861 and he committed suicide in the sea at Bournemouth (UK) in 1915 after being refused entry into the army. He was named after his grandfather's friend Jacob Warburton of New Hall Pottery. His father (John William Pike) a ball clay merchant died in 1869 making Warburton and his siblings orphans. His mother was Mary Mayer (1827–1866)- daughter of Thomas Mayer of Longport Pottery. Warburton attended Rugby school and then Brasenose College Oxford where he became a close friend of Earl Haig, the future field marshal. He inherited a fortune as a young man. He was often not the first European to visit an area but was often the first to write prose about the areas that he traveled. There is a mountain named for him on Saturna Island
Saturna Island
Saturna Island is a mountainous island, about 31 km² in size, in the Southern Gulf Islands chain of British Columbia. It is situated approximately midway between the Lower Mainland of B.C. and Vancouver Island, and is the most easterly of the Gulf Islands. It is surrounded on three sides by...
near Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several North American locations named after George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific Northwest coast of North America between 1791 and 1794...
. There is a Memorial to him at Dease Lake near Cassiar
Cassiar, British Columbia
Cassiar is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada. It was a small company-owned asbestos mining town located in the Cassiar Mountains of Northern British Columbia north of Dease Lake. After forty years of operation, starting in 1952, the mine was unexpectedly forced to close in 1992...
on the British Columbian mainland while his grave is under a plain little stone cross in a Bournemouth (UK) Public Cemetery.