Warwick

RICHARD NEVIL, EARL OF, (100rrik,) surnamed THE KING-MAKER, one of the grandest figures in English history, was B. abt. 1428. He was the wealthiest and most powerful subject of his time in Europe, and allied by blood to the royal houses of England and France. After joining the Yorkists in the commencement of the calamitous War of the Roses, and taking King Henry VI. prisoner, W., after his victory of Towton, placed Edward, Duke of York, on the throne as Edward IV. Upon the latter quarrelling with his great va al, W. allied himself with the Lancastrians, formed an alliance with France, and at the head of a powerful army drove Edward out of England, and reinstated Henry VI. on the throne. Killed in the battle of Barnet, 1471. War'wick, a central co. of England, surrounded by Stafford, Leicester, North amp ton, Oxford, and Worcester. Area, 881 sq. m. It po e es the finest woodland scenery in the kingdom: C. Warwick. Pop. 633,902. WARWICK, a manuf. borough, C. of above co., on the Avon, 20 miles S.E. of Birmingham. The magnificent baronial castle here, the principal residence of the Beau champs, Nevils, Brookes, and Grevilles, earls of Warwick, suffered considerable injury by fire in 1871. Pop.11.001. War'wick, in Pennsylvania, a vill. of Lancaster co., 9 m. N.E. of Lancaster. Pop. 3,345. In Rhode Island, a town of Kentco., 10 m. S.W. of Providence. Pop. 10,453. -In Virginia, a S.E. co.; area, 50 sq. m.; C. Warwick. Pop.1,672. [s. 949]