Francis Warre Cornish

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Name Francis Warre-Cornish Children Mary MacCarthy Education Eton College		Died 1916 Role Writer Grandchildren Rachel MacCarthy

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

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