Warneford Scholarship
Warneford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Warneford (1720–1773), British clergyman and scholar *Reginald Warneford (1891–1915), Royal Naval Air Service officer *Samuel Wilson Warneford Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763 – 11 January 1855) was an astute and eccentric English cleric and philanthropist from an old but generally impoverished family. He married into money, as his father had done, and thereafter spent his life trying to ...

John Warneford
Reverend John Warneford MA, BD (1720 – 20 November 1773) was an English clergyman and scholar. He was born in Miserden, Gloucestershire, the eldest son of Reverend William Warneford, Senior Lecturer of St Michael, Cornhill,Gentleman's Magazine, April, 1760 and Susannah Paynter (great granddaughter of Edward Reynolds, bishop of Norwich). A year before his birth, his father, then an eighteen-year-old scholar at New College, Oxford, caused a sensation by eloping with Susannah, the 34-year-old daughter of William Paynter, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. John Warneford attended school at Winchester, and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 8 July 1735, aged 14. He graduated MA in 1742/3 and Bachelor of Divinity in 1752. From 1743 to 1748 he was curate to his father at All Hallows Bread Street, London but afterwards returned to Oxford. In June 1761 he was unanimously elected Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford, and remained so until his death in 17 ...
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Reginald Warneford
Reginald Alexander John Warneford, VC (15 October 1891 – 17 June 1915), also known as Rex Warneford, was a British aviator and Royal Naval Air Service officer who received the Victoria Cross for air-bombing a Zeppelin during the First World War. It was the first victory of a heavier-than-air aircraft over a lighter-than-air dirigible. Early life Warneford was born in Darjeeling, India, the son of an engineer on the Indian Railways. He was brought to England as a small boy and educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon but after his family returned to India he continued his education at the English College, Simla. Following apprenticeship in the Merchant Marine, Warneford joined the British-India Steam Navigation Company. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was in Canada awaiting return to India. Instead, he sailed then to Britain, joining the 24th (Service) Battalion (2nd Sportsman's), Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) but soon transferred to ...
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