Reverend John Warneford MA, BD (1720 – 20 November 1773) was an English clergyman and scholar.
He was born in Miserden, Gloucestershire, the eldest son of Reverend William Warneford, Senior Lecturer of St Michael, Cornhill,[1] and Susannah Paynter (great granddaughter of Edward Reynolds, bishop of Norwich).
John Warneford attended school at Winchester, and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 8 July 1735, aged 14.
In June 1761 he was unanimously elected Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford, and remained so until his death in 1773.
For some of this period he was also rector of Bassingham, Lincolnshire and at the time of his death was curate at Helmdon, Northamptonshire, where there is a memorial tablet commemorating him.