Sir Thomas Herbert Warren (1853–1930) was an English academic and administrator.
Educated at Clifton College school, he entered Balliol College, Oxford in 1872, becoming a Fellow in 1877. He was President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1885–1928, and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1906–10 and as Oxford Professor of Poetry 1911–16.
Warren wrote By Severn Sea and Other Poems.
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