COLL VP 01
Reference code
COLL VP 01
Title
Papers of Francis Warre Cornish, 1893-1916
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
A King's Scholar at Eton from 1853 - 1857, Warre Cornish won the Newcastle Scholarship and went on to King's College, Cambridge in 1857. There he won the Battie Prize, and took a first class degree. In 1861 he returned to Eton as an assistant master, becoming a house master three years later. He was elected Vice-Provost in 1893, and took an especial interest in College Library. He married Blanche Ritchie in 1866.
Date
1872 - 1915
Content description
Includes correspondence on the dismissal of Oscar Browning, on the Hornby Memorial Fund, musical services at Eton, letters from Henry Luxmoore, a memorandum on chapel services in his schooldays, and the purchase of Higden's Polychronicon.
Finding aids
Typed list
Publication note
Obituary, Eton College Chronicle, 28/09/1916
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- F. Warre Cornish: History lectures, COLL VP 01 18, (1890 - 1891)
- Correspondence concerning the dismissal of Oscar Browning, COLL VP 01 01, (1875)
- Letter from Wasey Sterry advising the preservation of correspondence on the dismissal of Browning, COLL VP 01 02, (12 April 1939)
- Letter from F.H. Warre Cornish presenting the bundle of correspondence on the dismissal of Browning, COLL VP 01 03, (3 August 1939)
- Letter from William Cory on historical topics, COLL VP 01 04, (22 January 1889)
- Letters from Donald Tovey on Gray, COLL VP 01 05, (October 1889 - December 1889)
- Copy letters from Algernon Swinburne on the 450th anniversary celebrations, COLL VP 01 06, (March 1891 - June 1891)
- Papers on the Hornby Memorial Fund, COLL VP 01 07, (1911)
- Eton and the War, by Mrs Warre Cornish, COLL VP 01 08, (1908)
- Memorandum on the future of musical services at Eton, COLL VP 01 09, (3 June 1872)
- Letters from Henry Luxmoore, COLL VP 01 10, (1909-1912)
- Letters from F.A. Bosanquet, COLL VP 01 11, (1915)
- Letters from J. Manley on repairing engravings and frames, COLL VP 01 12, (October 1914)
- Memorandum on services in College Chapel, COLL VP 01 13, (1 February 1903)
- Letter from Dr Warre enclosing a silhouette of Ayliffe Langford, COLL VP 01 14, (28 September 1898)
- Papers relating to purchase of Higden's Polychronicon, COLL VP 01 15, (1900-1913)
- Letters relating to the gift of the Helen Farquhar coin collection, COLL VP 01 16, (1915)
- Cornish, an ode to the future Vice-Provost of Eton, COLL VP 01 17, (1893)