Francis Warner (or, Francis Robert le Plastrier Warner) came to St Peter’s College as Fellow and Tutor in English Literature in 1965. St Peter’s had received its Charter only four years earlier, and its growing reputation was to be intertwined with his. He came, at the age of 28, with an exceptional list of achievements already behind him. Having left Christ’s Hospital at the age of 16, and having secured a choral scholarship at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, he became the younges...
