Background
HOLMES, Geoffrey was born on July 17, 1928 in Sheffield. Son of Horace Holmes and Daisy Lavinia Holmes (nee Shorter).
HOLMES, Geoffrey was born on July 17, 1928 in Sheffield. Son of Horace Holmes and Daisy Lavinia Holmes (nee Shorter).
Woodhouse Grammar School, Sheffield and Pembroke College, Oxford.
Served in army (Royal Army Service Corps) 1948-1950, Military Adviser’s staff, United Kingdom High Commission, New Delhi 1949-1950. Personnel Department, Hadfield’s Limited., Sheffield 1951-1952.
Assistant, Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Modem History, University of Glasgow 1952-1969.
Reader in History, University of Lancaster 1969-1972, Professor 1973-1983, Emeritus Professor since 1983. Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford 78.
Raleigh Lecturer, British Academy 1979. James Ford Special Lecturer, Oxford University 1981.
Vice-President Royal Historical Society since 1985.
Married Ella Jean Waddell Scott in 1955.