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