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Kenneth Turpin (13 January 1915 – 14 September 2005) was a former Provost of Oriel College, Oxford from 1957 to 1980. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969. Turpin was born in Ludlow in 1915 and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. Entering Oriel to read Greats, quickly changing to history, he graduated in 1939 with a first class degree and was awarded his BLitt for a thesis on Robert Harley in 1940. Due to lung trouble he was considered unfit for military service, he entered the Treasury as a temporary civil servant and from 1943 to 1945 served as assistant private secretary to Clement Atlee, then Deputy Prime Minister. With the war over, he returned to Oxford as an administrator, from 1947 to 1957 he was secretary of faculites, after which he took up the offer of a professorial fellowship at Oriel, on Sir George Clark's retirement in 1957, he was elected Provost. He researched into the history of the University in the 19th century and became a member of the Hebdomadal Council and a curator of the Chest. Turpin became Vice-Chancellor of the University in 1966 and held the post for three years. He remained Provost until 1980, after postponing his retirement for a year at the request of the Fellows, he moved to Knighton, returning to Oxford after a few years. Just as he and his sister Mary had cared for their ageing parents, so Mary devotedly kept house and cared for him. Turpin's funeral was held in the chapel of Oriel College.

Publication

Brock, M.G. and Curthoys, M.C., The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VI, Part 1, Chapter 6 "The Ascendancy of Oriel" is by Turpin — Oxford University Press (1997) pp.183-192. ISBN 0-19-951016-4.

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