David Bailie Warden (1772–1845)
Warden was a mediary between Bushrod Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette.
David Bailie Warden was born in 1772 at Ballycastle, near Greyabbey, County Down, Ireland. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, he trained for the Presbyterian ministry. His patriotism led to his banishment from Ireland and immigration to the United States, where he worked as an educator in New York. In 1804 Warden went to Paris to serve as secretary to U.S. Minister to France John Armstrong, whose children he had tutored. Over the next decade he earned a promotion to consul and continued pursuing his interests in mathematics, literature, natural history, and science.
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David Bailie Warden Papers, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Roney and Warden Family Papers, Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Warden Papers, Special Collections, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore.
Patrick M. Geoghegan, "Warden, David Bailie," Dictionary of Irish Biography (2009).
The Columbian Fountain (Washington, D.C.), 8 November 1845, page 3, column 1 (Newspapers.com).