Education
Magdalen College; Highgate School.
Magdalen College; Highgate School.
Educated at Highgate School and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1977 until 1995, where he has been an Honorary Fellow since 1995. He was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1985 till 1989. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003.
Having been knighted in 1983, Neill was made a Life Peer as Baron Neill of Bladen, of Briantspuddle in the County of Dorset, on 28 November 1997.
He became a barrister in 1951 and a Queen's Counsel in 1966. After heading One Hare Court, he became head of chambers of Serle Court, in Lincoln"s Inn when the two merged in 1999.