Sir George Frederic Warner, FBA, FSA (7 April 1845 – 17 January 1936) was an English archivist; he was Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian at the British Museum from 1904 to 1911.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, to read classics, graduating in 1868.
He started A Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections in 1894, although he did not oversee its eventual publication nearly thirty years later.
According to F. G. Kenyon, his "most important works of scholarship" were The Buke of John Maundeuill (1889) and The Libell of Englyshe Polycye (1926).
from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library;[2] he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) four years later, and in 1911 he was knighted (the same year that he was elected to an honorary fellowship at Pembroke College).