Talk:Oliver Warner

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Oliver Warner was born in London in 1903. He was reader for the publisher Chatto and Windus until World War II, when he was appointed to the Commission and Warrant Branch of the Admiralty. He served on the War Artists Advisory Committee and the Naval Honours and Awards Committee in 1946 and 1947. He worked at the British Council, and was book critic for the Tatler in 1964-5. He served on the Councils of the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research. He died in 1976.

Education Oliver Martin Wilson Warner was educated at Denstone and then at Caius College, Cambridge.

Travels He travelled in Canada, the USA, Sudan, the Middle East, Finland and Russia.

Works

• 'An Introduction to British Marine Painting' Batsford (1948)
• 'A Portrait of Lord Nelson' Chatto and Windus (1958), Penguin Books (1987)
• 'Trafalgar' Batsford (1959)
• 'Emma Hamilton and Sir William' Chatto and Windus (1960)
• 'The Glorious First of June' Macmillan Publishers (1961)
• 'Great Sea Battles' Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1963), Hamlyn (publishers) (1968)
• 'English Literature, A Portrait Gallery' Chatto and Windus (1964)
• 'The Sea and the Sword. The Baltic 1630-1945' Jonathon Cape (1965)
• 'Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns' Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1967)
• 'Cunningham of Hyndhope Admiral of the Fleet' John Murray (1967)
• 'The Navy' Penguin Books (1968)
• 'The Life and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood' Oxford University Press (1968)
• 'A Journey to the Northern Capitals' Allen and Unwin (1968)
• 'With Wolfe to Quebec' Collins (1972)
• 'The Life-Boat Service. A History of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution' Cassell (1974)
• 'Fighting Sail' Cassell (1979)

Jetsamoocow (talk) 09:40, 10 February 2009 (UTC)