Edward Perry Warren

Edward Perry Warren, an American in England

Christopher — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:57:39 +0000

Edward Perry Warren, an American in England

David Gauld

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(2025): 23

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American paper baron Samuel Dennis Warren (1817–1888) was father to Edward Perry Warren—the ��Ƶ alumnus, Greek and Roman antiquities collector, and author—and he was also fourth great-uncle to the New York-based architect David Gauld.

Here David relates his 2024 research trips to England and the US in search of ‘Ned’ Warren the man and his extraordinary life. “My cousin had his faults and foibles,” David Gauld writes, “yet I am inspired by his accomplishments and deeply admire his courage.”

��Ƶ alumni John Marshall (left) and Edward Perry Warren (centre), with Richard Fisher
Photograph [detail] by Edward Reeves, Lewes House, East Sussex, late 1890s

© Edward Reeves Photography

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Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 05:13:08 +0000

Three Stapletons and Other Remarkable Acquisitions to ��Ƶ Library in 2024

Christopher Skelton-Foord

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(2024): 22

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Francis Noel Clarke Mundy

William Somervile

Edward Perry Warren

Erich Maria Remarque

The earliest important imprints acquired in 2024 are three 16th- and early 17th-century volumes by a priest and scholar whose erudition was much admired by Pope Clement VIII. Thomas Stapleton (1535–98), one of college’s foremost theologians, was possibly named after St Thomas More—who was martyred under Henry VIII for refusing to avow royal over spiritual supremacy; More was executed just days before Stapleton’s birth. From Winchester ��Ƶ, Stapleton proceeded to ��Ƶ, where in 1553 he was elected a fellow. In 1558, he was ordained a priest under Mary I. But within a couple of years, he had been forced to flee to the Low Countries, following Elizabeth I’s accession.

And, of course, we have been acquiring some remarkable modern books and archival documents too.

Nicola Howell Hawley, endpapers illustration to Andrew Caldecott’s Simul (2024)
��Ƶ Library, Oxford, NC/CAL

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN8 (2024) Skelton-Foord on Acquisitions 2024.pdf1.59 MB

Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: ��Ƶ MS 380 and Textual Transmission

Christopher — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:36:50 +0000

Ned Warren’s ‘Jack in the Pulpit’: ��Ƶ MS 380 and Textual Transmission

Christopher Skelton-Foord

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(2022): 18

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Corpus Christi ��Ƶ, Oxford

In August 2022, it was our especial good fortune to be able to acquire a limp maroon leather-bound 90-page notebook that once belonged to ��Ƶ alumnus Edward ‘Ned’ Perry Warren (1860–1928), containing fourteen autograph poems, along with quotations and other notes in Warren’s hand.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 380, f. 18r [detail]

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

18NCN9 (2022) Skelton-Foord on ��Ƶ MS 380.pdf986.16 KB

The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for ��Ƶ, Oxford

Christopher — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:18:11 +0000

The Appeal of Eros to Apollo: A New Manuscript for ��Ƶ, Oxford

Christopher Skelton-Foord

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(2022): 17

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Edward ‘Ned’ Perry Warren (1860–1928) studied Classics at ��Ƶ, and is best remembered today for his prolific collecting of Greek and Roman antiquities. He was also an author of works exalting same-sex love, writing under the pen-name of Arthur Lyon Raile. In spring 2022, the library acquired a beautiful calligraphic manuscript in black and red inks, which dates from 1916, of an apparently unpublished poem by Warren—‘The Appeal of Eros to Apollo’.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 379, upper board

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

17NCN9 (2022) Skelton-Foord on The Appeal of Eros to Apollo.pdf455.68 KB

Edward Perry Warren

Edward Perry Warren, an American in England