Photographic portrait of Maurice Shock

Scope and Content

Caption reads ‘Maurice Shock, MA, Honorary Fellow of the Polytechnic, 22 November 1985'

Includes the information that he was:

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, 1977-1987

Administrative / Biographical History

Maurice Shock was Vice-Chancellor for the University of Leicester from 1977 to 1987, before becoming Rector at Lincoln College, Oxford until 1994. In his early career, he worked for the British Intelligence services.

He has a building for medical sciences at the University of Leicester named after him.