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Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA (/ ˈ b aʊ r ə /; 8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.
Bowra died in England at the age of thirty-two in 1874, [4] apparently after over-exerting himself at a garden party. He was buried in the catacombs of West Norwood Cemetery. His son, Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (1869–1947) also served in the Chinese Maritime Service. [5] His grandson, Maurice Bowra, born in Jiujiang, became a prominent ...
Audrey Beecham (1915–1989), poet, teacher and historian, niece of the composer; Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford was engaged to her Catherine Byron (1947), Irish poet who often collaborates with visual and sound artists
The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, [7] according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.Over four years, she gained royal and ecclesiastical support for the new college, negotiated the purchase of a site, appointed the West Country architect William Arnold, drew up the college statutes, and appointed the first warden, fellows, scholars ...
(left to right) Sir Maurice Bowra, Sylvester Govett Gates and Hartley by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1920s. Oxford Poetry first published Hartley's work in 1920 and 1922. During this time, he edited Oxford Outlook with Gerald Howard and A. B. B. Valentine, publishing work by L. A. G. Strong, Edmund Blunden, John Strachey, and Maurice Bowra.
The family later donated one of the original 17th-century heads to Wadham College; it is located in the college gardens. In 1971, Black made a death mask of Sir Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from which a plaster cast is now held in the National Portrait Gallery, London. [8]
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[2] At Oxford he made many literary friends, including Maurice Bowra, Roy Harrod and L. P. Hartley, and literature began to rival music as his chief interest. [3] He left Oxford without taking his degree and embarked on a career as a novelist, writing a series of autobiographical novels. [1]