Background
William Johnson Cory was the son of Charles Johnson of Torrington, Devonshire, was born on the 9th of January 1823.
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William Johnson Cory was the son of Charles Johnson of Torrington, Devonshire, was born on the 9th of January 1823.
William Johnson Cory was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.
At Cambridge he gained the chancellor's medal for an English poem on Plato in 1843, and the Craven Scholarship in 1844.
In 1845, after graduating at the university, he was made an assistant master at Eton, where he remained for some twenty-six years.
William Johnson Cory had a great influence on his pupils, and he defended the Etonian system against the criticism of Matthew James Higgins.
He proved his genuine lyrical power in Ionica (1858), which was republished with some additional poems in 1891.
He also produced Lucretilis (1871), a work on the writing of Latin verses; Iophon (1873), on Greek Iambics; and Guide to Modern History from 1815 to 1835 (1882).
Extracts from the Letters and Journals of William Cory, which contains much paradoxical and suggestive criticism, were edited by F. W. Cornish and published by private subscription in 1897.
The artist Charles Wellington Furse, A. R. A. (1868 - 1904), was a son of Archdeacon Furse.
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Cory married late in life, and after four years spent in Madeira he settled in 1882 at Hampstead. He had a son.