Francis Warre-Cornish


Francis Warre Warre-Cornish was a British schoolmaster, scholar and writer.

Life

He was the son of Hubert Kestell Cornish, vicar of Bakewell, and his wife Louisa Warre, daughter of Francis Warre, and was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He was a master and subsequently Vice-Provost of Eton, from 1893 to 1916. He resigned from Eton in April 1916 and died in August 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, author of 'Ionica'. Selected and arranged by Francis Warre Cornish, 1897A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1898, based on William Smith's DictionaryThe Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, 1904Chivalry, 1908A History of the English Church in the Nineteenth Century, 2 volumes, 1910Darwell Stories, 1910Jane Austen, English Men of Letters, second series, 1913Life of Oliver Cromwell, 1882Sunningwell '', 1899