Geoffrey Marshall (constitutionalist)

[1] His family moved to Blackpool, and Marshall joined Arnold School on a county scholarship.

[2] He turned down a place at Balliol College, Oxford, on the grounds that the facilities' heating was not good enough.

[3] He attended lectures by Harold Laski and was asked to prepare them for publication, which he did under the title Reflections on the Constitution.

[3] In 1959, his second book, co-authored by Graeme Moodie, was entitled Some Problems of the Constitution and dealt with ministerial responsibility.

[2] He was elected a fellow and tutor in Politics at The Queens's College, Oxford, in 1957, where he stayed until his retirement in 1999.