Rubie Drummond-Nairne Warner

Rubie Drummond-Nairne Warner (1886–27 December 1977), known also by her marital name Mrs. Somerset, was a pioneer female scholar of medieval English and Old Norse.

Early life Warner was born in 1886 to William Redston Warner, a resident of Marlow, Buckinghamshire; she had a younger brother, Douglas (1887–1916), who died in the First World War. At Queen's she was also to meet another lifelong friend, Maude Clarke.

Major publications

Early English Homilies from the Twelfth-Century M.S. Vespasian D. XIV, Early English Text Society, Original Series, 115 (London: Early English Text Society, 1917) Some Important Points in Historical English Grammar (Oxford: Blackwell, 1928).