Edmond Warre

Edmond Warre CB CVO (12 February 1837 – 22 January 1920) was an English rower and Head Master of Eton College from 1884 to 1905.

He was educated at Eton, where he was an exact contemporary of Algernon Charles Swinburne, and then at Balliol College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished university career, taking a double first (1856 and 1859).

He also won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta in 1857 partnering Arthur Lonsdale.

His 45 years' connexion with Eton thoroughly identified him with its traditions and ideals, and, without being remarkable either as a scholar or as a teacher, he wielded a personal influence which has seldom been surpassed.

In 1909, he edited Letters from the Peninsula, 1808–1812, his uncle Sir William Warre's account of the Peninsular War.