Herbert Warren

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| honorific_prefix = Sir

| name = Thomas Herbert Warren

| honorific_suffix = KCVO

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| office = President of Magdalen College, Oxford

| term_start = 1885

| term_end = 1928

| predecessor = Frederick Bulley

| successor = George Gordon

| office2 = Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

| term_start2 = 1906

| term_end2 = 1910

| predecessor2 = William Walter Merry

| successor2 = Charles Buller Heberden

| office3 = Oxford Professor of Poetry

| term_start3 = 1911

| term_end3 = 1916

| predecessor3 = Andrew Cecil Bradley

| successor3 = Gilbert Murray

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1853|10|21}}

| birth_place = Bristol, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|6|9|1853|10|21}}

| death_place = Oxford, England

| spouse = Mary Isabel Brodie (m. 1886)

| children =

| parents = Algernon William Warren, Cecil Thomas

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Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, KCVO (21 October 1853 – 9 June 1930) was a British academic and administrator who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford for 43 years (1885–1928) and vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1906–10).{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Herbert Warren – A Great Oxford Head |work=The Times |date=10 June 1930 |page= 14}}

Early life and education

File:Thomas Herbert Warren, Vanity Fair, 1893-04-08.jpg published in Vanity Fair in 1893.]]

Warren was born in Bristol, the eldest son of magistrate Algernon William Warren, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|JP}}, and Cecil Thomas, both born in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Architect Edward Prioleau Warren was his younger brother.1861 England Census His sister, Anna Letitia Warren, studied at Somerville College, Oxford.

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 for the college and the university. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalen in 1877, and became Classical Tutor in 1878.{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=Oxford men & their colleges. |date=1893 |publisher=Oxford, J. Parker |page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordmentheirco00fostuoft/page/n196 241] |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordmentheirco00fostuoft |accessdate=30 January 2020}}

Career

Warren was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1885 to 1928, and served as vice-chancellor of Oxford University from 1906 to 1910{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/|title=Previous Vice-Chancellors|publisher=University of Oxford, UK|accessdate=July 13, 2011|archive-date=April 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419085125/https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/|url-status=dead}} and as Oxford Professor of Poetry 1911–16.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nH89AAAAIAAJ&q=Warren&pg=PA271 |title=Philosophers as Educational Reformers |author= Peter Gordon |author2= John White |isbn=978-0-7100-0214-3 |publisher=Routledge |year=1979}}Cyril Bailey, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101036754/ Warren, Sir (Thomas) Herbert (1853–1930)], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004. {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/36754}}

Warren published By Severn Sea and Other Poems in 1897 [http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/qwork/871737/used/By%20Severn%20Sea%20and%20Other%20Poems Books] listed by Alibris. 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.

{{Pull quote|text=For many years the President of Magdalen had been about the best known figure in Oxford. His long tenure of his office, 43 years, his great experience of University business, his wide. circle of friends and acquaintances both in Oxford and in the outer world, the many spheres of his interests, and the versatility of his talents, all contributed to make him conspicuous, and many generations of undergraduates, whose acquaintance with heads of houses is not large, will reckon 'the Pre' among their lasting recollections of Oxford.|author=The Times|source=10 June 1930}}

Honours

Warren was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1914{{London Gazette |date= 13 November 1914|issue=28973 | page= 9263}} 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.{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 515|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}

He died in 1930 in Oxford and was buried at Holywell Cemetery.

References

External links

[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp62408 Photographs] in the National Portrait Gallery (London)
[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=CV%2FPers%2FWarren%2C%20Sir%20Thomas%20Herbert%20(1853-1930)%20Knight%2C%20President%20of%20Magdalen%20College%20Oxford Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert (1853–1930) Knight, President of Magdalen College Oxford], Janus, University of Cambridge, UK
[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Sir_Herbert_Warren Warren, Sir Thomas Herbert (1853–1930) Knight President of Magdalen College Oxford], National Archives, UK

{{succession box

| title = President of Magdalen College, Oxford

| years = 1885–1928

| before = Frederic Bulley

| after = George Gordon

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{{succession box

| title = Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

| years = 1906–1910

| before = William Walter Merry

| after = Charles Buller Heberden

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