Warner was educated at home in Devon by his clergyman father and then at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[4] He played again regularly in 1868 and made his highest first-class score, 50, in the match against Surrey.
[1] Warner graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868.
[2] He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1870 and served as curate at Shalfleet on the Isle of Wight from that year.
He was also the great-uncle of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978), the English novelist, poet and musicologist.