Geoffrey MARSHALL

Background

Marshall, Geoffrey was born on April 22, 1929 in Chesterfield, England. Son of Leonard William and Katherine (Turner) Marshall.

Education

Bachelor in Economics, University Manchester, England, 1950. Master of Arts in Politics, University Manchester, England, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Glasgow, Scotland, 1954.

Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1957.

Career

His family moved to Blackpool, and Marshall joined Arnold School on a county scholarship. He turned down a place at Balliol College, Oxford, on the grounds that the facilities" heating was not good enough. Instead, in 1947 he joined Manchester University, reading Politics and Economics, and graduated in 1950.

He attended lectures by Harold Laski and was asked to prepare them for publication, which he did under the title Reflections on the Constitution.

His first book, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Commonwealth, was published in 1957. He described "sovereignty" as "an institutional arrangement resting upon an idea, and the idea is one which has philosophical (and even theological) implications".

In 1959, his second book, co-authored by Graeme Moodie, was entitled Some Problems of the Constitution and dealt with ministerial responsibility. He examined the controls on government and the means of redress of the citizen against the state.

He was elected a fellow and tutor in Politics at Queens"s College, Oxford, in 1957, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999.

Achievements

• Geoffrey Marshall has been listed as a notable political scientist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Oxford City Council, 1964-1974. Sheriff City of Oxford, 1970-1971. Fellow British Academy.

Interests

• Squash, jurisprudence.

Connections

Married Patricia Ann Christine Woodcock, August 22, 1957. Children; David, Stephen Edward.

Father:

Leonard William Marshall

Mother:

Katherine (Turner) Marshall

Spouse:

Patricia Ann Christine Woodcock