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Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, KCVO (21 October 1853 – 9 June 1930) was a British academic and

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for 43 years (1885–1928) and vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1906–10).

Early life and education

Thomas Herbert Warren, Vanity Fair, 1893-04-08

Warren was born in Bristol, the eldest son of magistrate Algernon William Warren, , and Cecil Thomas, both born in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Architect Edward Prioleau Warren was his younger brother. His sister, Anna Letitia Warren, studied at

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. At age 15, he entered the newly opened Clifton College, under its first headmaster John Percival. At Clifton, he played rugby and became head boy. After earning a scholarship, Warren entered

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, in 1872. He excelled as a scholar, earning numerous classical distinctions, including firsts in Moderations and Lit. Hum., the Hertford and Craven Scholarships, and the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse (1875). He was the college librarian in 1875-6. He also played rugby for the college and the university. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalen in 1877, and became Classical Tutor in 1878.

Career

Warren was president of

, from 1885 to 1928, and served as vice-chancellor of Oxford University from 1906 to 1910 and as Oxford Professor of Poetry 1911–16. Warren published ''By Severn Sea and Other Poems'' in 1897 and ''The Death of Virgil'' in 1907. In 1913, he published a study of his friend, the poet Robert Bridges. He retired in 1918 after spending more than four decades as a significant figure at the university.

Honours

Warren was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1914 after the Prince of Wales left Magdalen. He earned honorary degrees of LL.D. from the University of Birmingham and D.Litt. from the University of Bristol. He was made an honorary D.C.L. at Oxford. He also received the Legion of Honour from France and the

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Personal life

In 1886, Warren married Mary Isabel Brodie, youngest daughter of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet. He died in 1930 in Oxford and was buried at

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Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert (1853–1930) Knight President of Magdalen College Oxford
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