Geoffrey Kemp Caston

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(17 May 1926 – 19 January 2018) was Registrar of the University of Oxford (1972 to 1979) and Vice-Chancellor of the

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(1983 to 1992).

Life and career

Geoffrey Kemp Caston was born on 17 May 1926 and was educated at St Dunstan's College, London. He then studied at

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(history and law) and

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(Master of Public Administration). He worked as a civil servant, joining the Colonial Office in 1951, serving at the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York from 1958 to 1961, then returning to Britain and the Department of Education and Science followed by the University Grants Committee. He was appointed Registrar of the University of Oxford in 1972, and was also made a

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. He left Oxford in 1979, serving as Secretary-General to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals until 1983, then holding the position of Vice-Chancellor of the

from 1983 to 1992. He was appointed a

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(CBE) in 1990. He died on 19 January 2018 at the age of 91.Geoffrey Kemp Caston CBE
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caston, Geoffrey 1926 births 2018 deaths Civil servants in the Colonial Office Registrars of the University of Oxford Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Harvard Kennedy School alumni People educated at St Dunstan's College Vice-chancellors of the University of the South Pacific Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Merton College, Oxford British expatriates in Fiji