Sir Herbert Warren

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).

In his teens during the late 1860s, Warren played rugby football for the newly opened Clifton College. During the 1870s, he earned a scholarship which allowed him to enter Warren Balliol College, Oxford. He played rugby football for both the college and the university. As an academic, he gained a number of international honours. He received the Legion of Honour from France and the Order of the Crown of Italy. His sister, Anna Letitia Warren, studied at Somerville College, Oxford (then Somerville Hall), as one of its first 12 students. 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. and as Oxford Professor of Poetry 1911–16.

Warren 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. after the Prince of Wales left Magdalen.

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