Background
Furneaux was born in 1829 in Street Germans, Cornwall, England, where his father, Review Tobias Furneaux, was vicar for almost fifty years.
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Furneaux was born in 1829 in Street Germans, Cornwall, England, where his father, Review Tobias Furneaux, was vicar for almost fifty years.
Corpus Christi College.
During his education in Winchester College he was noted for his excellent memory, and from there he gained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he read Classics and was awarded a first class in 1851. He went on to become Fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi College, and was ordained and became moderator in 1856, then became proctor in 1865, and was examiner in Literae Humaniores from 1871 to 1876. From 1868 to 1893 he was Rector of Lower Heyford in Oxfordshire, and after resigning in 1893 he lived in Oxford.
Furneaux died from "failure of action of the heart" on 7 January 1900.
His obituary in The Times concludes, "His cheerful, kindly company, his sound scholarship, his unostentatious but profoundly appreciated virtues, will be for long sorely missed in the life of the University.".