James Walsh

James Jackson Walsh was assistant registrar at the University of Manchester from 1969, deputy registrar at the University of Leeds from 1971, and registrar from 1979 until 1992.

Education Following schooling at Nelson Grammar School, Walsh took a first-class honours BA in English (1948–51), an MA (1951–52), and a Graduate Certificate in Education (1952–53) at the University of Leeds. Walsh later concluded that his main motivation was that "I desperately, and increasingly desperately, wanted to be a real middle-class intellectual".

Personal life Walsh married his fellow English student Mary McGrail in 1953; they divorced in 1962, with a Decree Absolute being granted in 1964, shortly before Walsh met the woman who was to become his second wife, Vanessa Rosenthal.

Autobiography