Michael George Brock

Background

Brock, Michael George was born on March 9, 1920 in Bromley, England. Son of Laurence George and Ellen Margery (Williams) Brock.

Education

Bachelor, University of Oxford, England, 1943; Master of Arts with honors, University of Oxford, England, 1948; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Exeter, Devon, England, 1982.

Career

He was Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1978 to 1988. In 1938, he joined Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, to study classics. In 1940 during World World War II, he joined the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army.

In 1943, he fell ill in North Africa and returned to Cheshire as an adjutant.

He rejoined Corpus Christi College in September 1945, but decided to study modern history instead of classics, gaining a first class degree in 1948. Brock continued after 1948 at Corpus Christi College until 1966, serving as a junior research fellow, senior tutor, proctor, librarian, and dean

He then became Deputy President to Sir Isaiah Berlin at Wolfson College, a new graduate college at Oxford. He held a visiting professor position at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

The letters were written before and during World War I to the daughter of Lord Stanley, the socialite Venetia Stanley (1887–1948).

On his to England, in 1977 Brock briefly joined the University of Exeter to oversee a merger with Street Luke"s College of Education. In 1978, he returned to Oxford to become Warden of Nuffield College, succeeding Sir Norman Chester. Brock edited volumes 6 and 7 of The History of the University of Oxford, published by Oxford University Press.

Until 2000, he sat on the Hebdomadal Council, the executive council of Oxford University.

In 1988, Brock left Nuffield College to become Warden of Street George"s House at Windsor Castle for five years.

Achievements

• Michael George Brock has been listed as a notable literature educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • H.H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley

    (...enthralling...magnificent.' M. R. D. Foot in The Sunda...)

  • The Great Reform Act (Modern Revivals in History)

    (This analysis of the Great Reform Act covers the old syst...)

  • H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley by Michael Brock (Editor), Eleanor Brock (Editor) (26-Jun-2014) Paperback

Membership

Trustee St. Luke's College Foundation, Exeter, 1977-1984, chairman, 1979-1982. Member Court and Council, Reading (England) University, 1977-1986, vice president, 1982-1986. Director Williams College Oxford Program, Oxford, 1985-1993.

Chairman National Primary Trust, Oxford, since 1992. Served to captain British Army, 1940-1945. Fellow Royal History Society, Royal Society Literature, Society for Research into Higher Education.

Member Athenaeum Club.

Interests

• Avocations: walking, gardening.

Connections

Married Eleanor Hope Morrison, July 28, 1949. Children: George Laurence, David Michael, Paul Morrison.

Father:

Laurence George Brock

Mother:

Ellen Margery (Williams) Brock

Spouse:

Eleanor Hope Morrison

child:

Paul Morrison Brock

child:

George Laurence Brock

child:

David Michael Brock