Old Swithunites - Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Fi Glover, Emma Chambers, Elizabeth Bather (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, DBE, FBA (born 14 April 1924) is a British philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism. Warnock was born Mary Wilson, in Meadow House in the city of Winchester, Hampshire, England on 14 April, 1924, and was the youngest of seven children. Her mother was from a prosperous family, and her father, a Scotsman, Archie Wilson, was a housemaster and taught German at Winchester College. He caught diphtheria just before the school's summer holiday in 1923 at the time the bacterial infection was going around the school, and died of heart failure (a complication of diphtheria) after the school had broken up. His death occurred before Warnock was born, and so she was brought up by her mother and a nanny. She never knew her eldest sibling, Malcolm, who was severely mentally handicapped with autism and cared for in a nursing home, spending his last days in a Dorset Hospital. The third child, Sandy, died when very young. Her other brother, Duncan, became master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. When Warnock was seven months old the family moved to Kelso House, a three-floor Victorian house, now the music centre at Peter Symonds College. The nursery for the younger children was on the first floor and overlooked the gardens. Her nanny, Emily Coleman, who also lived on the first floor, provided consistency in the upbringing of Warnock and Stefana, the youngest two children, while their mother remained in the periphery of the care of her young children. Warnock chose to be educated as a boarder at St Swithun's School, Winchester when her mother allowed her bright youngest child to make her own choice of school. In a BBC Radio 4 programme broadcast in September 2008, Warnoc... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2016044