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Born in Australia, Geoffrey studied economics at the University of Melbourne and then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctorate. After visiting to lecture in 1964-1966, 1972-1973 and 1980, he decided to move to Cambridge on a more permanent basis from 1982 to 1998.

Geoffrey was a University Lecturer from 1982 to 1990 and Reader in the History of Economic Theory from 1990 to 1998 in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge, and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics at Jesus College from 1982 to 1998. He was President of Jesus College from 1988 to 1989 and 1990 to 1992.

Geoffrey became an Emeritus Fellow of the College on his retirement in 1998. In the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list he was awarded a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, for eminent service to higher education as an academic economist and author, particularly in the fields of post-Keynesian economics, capital theory and economic thought. Geoffrey made major contributions to the understanding of the ideas of Keynes, Joan Robinson, and other Cambridge economists. He also made important contributions in his own right to post-Keynesian and post-Kaleckian theory.

He made a life-long commitment to work toward alleviating poverty and against social and racial discrimination, and became one of Australia's most eminent economists. He lived in Sydney in the last years of his life, although he continued to return to visit Jesus College.

Born 27 May 1944 in New Zealand and attended Mount Albert Grade School 1951-62. Studied at the University of Auckland 1963-68 before studying architecture at Jesus College. He later became an architect. Rowed number 4 for the Jesus College Boat Club in the 1970s.

Richard Frederick Fraser Handcock was born in 1870 at Cheltenham and attended school in Reading. He came up to Jesus College in 1888 receiving a B. A in 1891. He was ordained a deacon of Manchester in 1892 and priest in 1894. He was appointed at C. of Christ Church, Heaton; Norris, Lancs., 1892-4; Assistant Chaplain at Montevideo, Uruguay, S. America, 1894-5; V. of St Peter's, Buenos Aires, 1895-1901; R. of Peddie, Cape Colony, 1903-4; C.-in-charge of Tillington, Sussex, 1905-7; V. of Theddingworth, Leics., 1907-12; R. of Charfield, Gloucs., 1913-14; R. of Oxendon, Northants., 1914-31; P.C. of Kimmeridge, Dorset, 1931-2; R. of Berkeley, Somerset, 1932-6; V. of Grendon, Northants., 1936-42; resigned. He died on 13 March 1945.