Background
Warnock, Geoffrey James was born on August 16, 1923 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Son of James and Kathleen (Hall) Warnock.
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Geoffrey James James Warnock
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Education
Bachelor, Oxford University, 1948. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1952. HHD (honorary), University Hartford, Connecticut, 1986.
Career
Before his knighthood (in the 1986 New Year Honours), he was commonly known as G. J. Warnock. 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 (1971–1988), 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, a philosophy fellow of Street Hugh"s College, Oxford, and later Baroness Warnock, in 1949. He retired to live near Marlborough, Wiltshire, in 1988 and died in 1995 at Axford in Wiltshire.
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Married Helen Mary Wilson, July 9, 1949. Children: Kathleen, Felix, James, Stephana, Grizel.
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United Kingdom
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1948
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1952
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1986