Sir Fabian Ware
Born 17 June 1869
Died 28 April 1949
Active: 1899 - 1948
Country of birth and death: England
Newspaper editor and founder of the imperial war graves commission
Editor of the 'Morning Post' 1905-11. After the outbreak of war in 1914 Ware took command of a mobile unit of the British Red Cross serving with the French army. He quickly recognized the need to record the graves of soldiers killed in action. In 1915 the War Office gave official recognition to Ware's work and two years later, by royal charter, this became the Imperial War Graves Commission (1917).
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Ware devoted himself exclusively to working for the commission. Between 1939-44 he combined his commission duties with those of director-general of grave registration and inquiries. In 1948 failing health forced him to retire.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at British Monumental Materials and Design (Art Workers Guild), 1932
1932, p.12.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1932, p.12.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
A. J. A. Morris, ‘Ware, Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone (1869–1949)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36741, accessed 18 Aug 2010]
Citing this record
'Sir Fabian Ware', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1219338676, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
