Edward Warner, 1st Governor of Antigua

Edward Warner (b. 1609/10), colonial governor, Sir Thomas's eldest son, travelled with his father on the initial voyage to St Kitts and acted as deputy governor of that colony during his father's frequent absences. Hilton describes him as ‘young in yeares, & as yett not ensighted in government’ but innocent of the plottings of his advisers (which in one case included murder): he was ‘alwayes of a loving, affable, tender disposicion’ (Hilton, 6–7). In 1632 he was appointed by Sir Thomas the first governor of Antigua. Very little else is known of his life except that his wife and child are said to have been carried away from Antigua by Caribs in 1640. This tragedy is said to have contributed to his early death, the date of which is unknown.

Michael A. LaCombe, ‘Warner, Sir Thomas (c.1580–1649)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28768, accessed 29 Aug 2010]