Oliver Warner

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Oliver Warner was born in 1903. He was in publishing until WWII 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 was a book critic for the Tatler in 1964-65. He then served on the Councils of the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research

[edit] Education

He was educated at Denstone and then at Caius College in Cambridge.

[edit] Travels

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

[edit] Works

• Portrait of Lord Nelson (1958)
• The Glorious First of June (1961)
• Great Sea Battles (1963)
• Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns (1967)
• The Navy (1968)
• The Life and Letters of Vice-Admiral Collingwood (1968)
• With Wolfe to Quebec published by Collins (1972)