About Geoffrey Walton

Geoffrey Walton has lived and worked in Charlbury since 1976 and ran two consulting practices one of which, GWP consultants, remains in the town.  He is a Chartered Engineer who studied under Evert Hoek and Tom Atkinson for his PhD in mining Engineering in the RSM at Imperial College and then followed Prof Atkinson to Nottingham University.  Previously he read Geology and Physics at Bristol University where he met his wife Liz when she was reading Medicine; they married in 1963 and have a son Luke and a daughter Kate and four granddaughters.  For 20 years he was visiting professor of mining at Leeds University and for 10 years served on the board of the British Geological Survey.  He travelled widely in his consulting work on projects in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.  In 2021 he set up a self-publishing business, Down Stone Books, and has interests in early baroque music, applied geoscience history and the means of linking academia and consultancy.