Geoffrey Warnock

Sir Geoffrey James Warnock (16 August 1923 – 8 October 1995)^[1] was a philosopher and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.^[2] Before his knighthood (in the 1986 New Year's Honours List), he was commonly known as G. J. Warnock.

Life

Warnock was born in Leeds, northern England and was educated at Winchester College.^[1] He then served with the Irish Guards until 1945, before entering New College, Oxford with a classics scholarship. He was elected to a Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1949. After spending three years at Brasenose College, he returned to Magdalen as a Fellow and tutor in philosophy. In 1970, he was elected to Principal of Hertford College, Oxford (1971 to 1988), where there is now a society and student house named after him.^[3] He was also the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1985.^[2]

Warnock married Mary Warnock, a 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, Wiltshire in 1988 and died in 1995 at Axford in Wiltshire.

Works

• Berkeley, Penguin Books, 1953.
• English Philosophy Since 1900, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1958; 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1969.
• The Object of Morality, Methuen, 1971. ISBN 0416137806.

References

External links

• Geoffrey Warnock on Kant Discussion with Bryan Magee — 5-part YouTube video series
• Photograph of Geoffrey and Mary Warnock by Steve Pyke