Thomas Warner (172)

Thomas Warner (October 1716–2 June 1779) was attorney general of the Leeward Islands and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. He was born in the Islands and educated in England at Gray’s Inn. Upon his return to Antigua, he embarked on a successful legal practice. Following another trip to England for his health, he inherited the family plantation. Over the next several decades, Warner and his brothers held all of the colony’s major offices. He was appointed attorney general in 1758 and served as Speaker of the Assembly from 1769 to 1777. He died in 1779. His brothers Ashton Warner and Samuel Henry Warner were also American Society members. (PI)