Oscar Emanuel Warburg (6 February 1876 - 1 July 1937) was a local politician.[1][2] The son of Frederic Warburg of London, he was educated at Trinity College Cambridge, graduating in 1898.[1]
In 1909 he became a member of Paddington Borough Council,[3] In 1910 he was elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing North Hackney. He remained a member of the council until a few months before his death, becoming an alderman in 1931.[1] He served as Chairman of the London County Council in 1925 - 1926, during which term he was knighted "for political and public services".[3]
During the First World War he served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, reaching the rank of captain.[1]
Warburg was also a member of the Court of London University and an honorary freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney.[1]
An amateur botanist, with two taxon names [2].
The Spanish Wikipedia page on him is here and the English Wikipedia page on his son E F Warburg ishere.