William Johnson Cory, born William Johnson, was an English educator and poet. He was dismissed from his post at Eton for encouraging a culture of intimacy, possibly non-sexual, between teachers and pupils. He is widely known for his English version of the elegy Heraclitus by Callimachus.
- Occupation
- poet, writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 9, 1823
- Died
- June 11, 1892
