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Name
  
Francis Warre-Cornish

Children
  
Mary MacCarthy

Education
  
Eton College


Died
  
1916

Role
  
Writer

Grandchildren
  
Rachel MacCarthy

Francis Warre-Cornish

Books
  
Life of Oliver Cromwell, The English Church in the Nineteenth Century, Jane Austen

Great grandchildren
  
Jonathan Cecil, Alice Laura Cecil, Hugh Peniston Cecil

Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (8 May 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.

Warre-Cornish married Blanche Ritchie, who was celebrated for her conversational powers and eccentricities. By her, he was the father of the writer Mary (Molly) MacCarthy, known for her involvement in the Bloomsbury Group, and Gerald Warre-Cornish author of St Paul from the Trenches.

Selected works

  • Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory [i.e. William Johnson Cory], author of 'Ionica'. Selected and arranged by Francis Warre Cornish, 1897
  • A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1898, based on William Smith's Dictionary
  • (Translator) The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, 1904
  • Chivalry, 1908
  • A History of the English Church in the Nineteenth Century, 2 volumes, 1910
  • Darwell Stories, 1910
  • Jane Austen, English Men of Letters, second series, 1913
  • Life of Oliver Cromwell, 1882
  • Sunningwell [A novel], 1899
  • References

    Francis Warre-Cornish Wikipedia