Geoffrey Warnock

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Sir Geoffrey Warnock (born 1923 as Geoffrey James Warnock) was a philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Before his knighthood he was commonly known as G. J. Warnock.

Geoffrey Warnock was tutor in philosophy and in 1970 was elected to Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, where there is now a society and student house named after him. He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1985.

Warnock married Mary Warnock, philosophy fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford and later Baroness Warnock, in 1949. They had two sons and three daughters. He retired to live near Marlborough in 1988 and died in 1995.

[edit] See also

• List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford

[edit] External link

• Geoffrey Warnock student accommodation at Hertford College, Oxford