Herbert Warren

published in Vanity Fair in 1893. 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 Somerville College, Oxford (then Somerville Hall), as one of its first 12 students. 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, 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 football 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 Magdalen College, Oxford, 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 Order of the Crown of Italy. ==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 Holywell Cemetery. ==References==