Warner, Rex

Author, translator and professor of English, Rex Warner was born 9 March 1905, in Birmingham, England, the son of Frederick Ernest (a clergyman) and Kathleen (Luce) Warner . Educated at Wadham College, Oxford (B.A. with honors, 1928), Warner was a member of the British Home Guard from 1942 until 1945. He was employed as a teacher in England and Egypt (1928-1945) and was associated with the control commission in Berlin, Germany (1945) and director of British Institute in Athens, Greece (1945-1948) before coming to the United States in 1961. He was the Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College (1961-1962) before joining the English faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1962. Warner was an Honorary fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; awarded the Black Memorial Prize (1961); decorated commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix ( Greece, 1963); and received D. Litt. from Rider College (1968).

Warner retired from the University after eleven years and died in 1986.