Samuel Warren (1807–1877) was an English lawyer, novelist, and essayist. He was born in London and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar in 1832 and practiced law for the next forty years. Warren is best known for his novel Ten Thousand a Year (1841), which was the basis for the play Our American Cousin (1858). He also wrote a number of essays, including The Right of Privacy (1890), which is considered to be the first legal treatise on the right to privacy. He was a friend of Charles Dickens and a member of the literary circle known as the "Young Englanders."
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