Francis Warre Warre-Cornish
- Francis Warre Warre-Cornish
Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (1839-1916) was a British scholar and writer. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He was a master (1861) and subsequently Vice-Provost of Eton, from 1893 to 1916.
Works
*A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1898) based on William Smith's
*The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (1904) translator
* The Letters and Journals of William Johnson Cory (1907)
* Chivalry (1908)
* A History of the English Church in the Nineteenth Century,. 2 volumes (1910)
*Darwell Stories (1910)
*English Men of Letters: Jane Austen (1913)
*Life of Oliver Cromwell
*Sunningwell
ource
*Concise Dictionary of National Biography
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