Robert Warren

(1785-1849)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Warren, Robert (1784/5-1849), blacking manufacturer LBT ID: RoWarre1849	B/BAP: 1785 DIED: 1849-02-13
SOURCES: DNB
Manufacturer of shoe-blacking in the Strand; he advertised his product by means of newspaper-poetry; as a boy Charles Dickens was briefly, and miserably employed in the factory.
REFERENCES TO Robert Warren: Scott, John, 1784-1821, “The Mohock Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (December 1820) 666-85 Found 1: ¶ n3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VI 1790-92 Found 1: ¶ 16