Thomas Herbert Warren KCVO (1853 - 1930)

Born 21 Oct 1853 in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Isabel (Brodie) Warren — married 16 Dec 1886 in Pimlico St Peter, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Died 9 Jun 1930 at age 76 in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Thomas Warren KCVO is Notable.

Thomas is the son of Algernon W Warren and Cecil Thomas. When Thomas Herbert Warren was born on October 21, 1853, in Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, England, his father, Algernon, was 32 and his mother, Cecil, was 34. He married Mary Isabel Brodie in 16 Dec 1886 in St. Peter, Pimlico, Middlesex, England. He died 9 Jun 1930, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

Educated at Clifton College, and earned a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1872, where he excelled as a scholar. He was college librarian 1875-1876, Played rugby for the college and university. Elected a Fellow of Magdalen College in 1877 and became Classical tutor in 1878,

President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1885-1928. Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1906-1910. Oxford Professor of Poetry 1911-1916.

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.

He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1914 after the Prince of Wales left Magdalen, He earned honorary degree from the University of Birmingham (LLD), and the University of Bristol (D.Litt). He was made an honorary DCL at Oxford. He received the Legion of Honour from France and the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Sources

• England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
• 1861 England Census
• City of Westminster Archives Centre; London, England; Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: SPES/PR/2/15
  Page 86. 1886; Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the District Parish of St Peter, Pimlico in the County of Middlesex
  No: 171; December 16, 1886; Thomas Herbert Warren; Full Age; Bachelor; Esquire, M.A.; Sbury Street; Father: Algernon William Warren, Esquire, J.P. and Mary Isobel Brodie; Full Age: Spinster; Eaton Square; Father: Benjamin Collins Brodie, Baronet.
  Married in the parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, by Banns by me, Henry Percy Sodden, Off Minister
  This Marriage was solemnized between us, Thomas Herbert Warren, Mary Isabel Brodie, in the Presence of us, Helena Prs Chirstiar…of Great Britain & Ireland, Christian Frz Stolsla?, B.V.S. Brodie, Ida P Brodie, Cha S Rowth
• 1871 England Census
• 1891 England Census
• 1911 England Census
• England, Oxford Men and Their Colleges, 1880-1892
• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
• Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1965
• [UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current]