Mr Colin Conyngham Turpin

1928-2019

Emeritus Reader in Law, Clare College

• 1928: Born 6th June 1928 Middelburg
  • Father: Ferdinand Worthington Turpin; Mother: Ivy Thelma, neé Stümke
• 1934-36: Private Primary School, Middelburg
• 1937-38: Middelburg Primary School
• 1939-41: St Andrew’s Preparatory School, Grahamstown
• 1942-45: St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown
• 1945: Teacher at St Mark’s School, Mbabane, Swaziland
• 1946-48: University of Cape Town BA
• 1949-50: University of Cape Town LLB
• 1951: Attorneys office, Walker, Lewis, Godley & Field, Cape Town
• 1951-53: Christ’s College, Cambridge, BA, LLB
• 1953: Married Monique, in Bromley, Kent.
• 1954-1960: Law Department, University of Natal 1954-59 Lecturer
• 1956: Earliest publications in South African Law Journal
• 1959: Associate Professor
• 1959-60: Sabbatical, Leiden
• 1960-61: University of Natal
• 1961-95: Clare College Cambridge
• 1961: Fellow
• 1961-66: Assistant Lecturer in law
• 1962 -65: Registrar for Admissions
• 1963-92: Lecturer in Law
• 1965-77: Tutor Clare College
• 1966: B A Hepple, P O'Higgins and C C Turpin, 'Rhodesian Crisis - Criminal Liabilities' Criminal Law Review 5
• 1976-92: Director of Studies Clare College
• 1977: Visiting Lecturer University of Cape Town
• 1982: Visiting Lecturer University of Tilburg
• 1985: Occasional Lectures by invitation Universities of Rome and Ancona
• 1985-87: Secretary Degree Committee Faculty Board
• 1985: British Government and the Constitution: Text & Materials Weidenfeld & Nicholson; 2012 7th Edit, CUP (with Tomkins)
• 1987-1992: Member of Editorial Board The Government Contracting Review
• 1989: Government Procurement and Contracts, Longman 328pp (with Brown)
• 1989-95: Editor, Cambridge Law Journal
• 1992-95: Reader in Public Law
• 1995: Retired
• 2006: Turpin-Lipstein Fellowship established at Clare College
• 2019: Died July, Oxford