Ashton Warner (177)
Election date: 1768 (Elected to the American Society and the revived American Philosophical Society.)Ashton Warner (10 December 1721–7 April 1789) was a surgeon, planter, and public officeholder, and a member of the American Society and the American Philosophical Society, elected to both in 1768. Born into a prominent planter family in Antigua, he was sent to England to be educated in surgery. He was apprenticed to Isaac Rider of the Company of Barber-Surgeons and practiced in London before returning to the West Indies. He was a subscriber to Griffith Hughes’s Natural History of Barbados (1750) and to John Hawkeworth’s New Voyage Around the World (1774). He was also active in public affairs, serving as a member of the island’s Council and, in 1788, as its president. He lived in England for several years in the 1780s before returning to Antigua, where he died in 1789. His brothers Thomas Warner and Samuel Henry Warner were American Society members. (PI)