HERBERT PAUL GRICE and PETER THOMAS GEACH

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Peter Thomas Geach, MA, FBA (born Lower Chelsea, 29 March 29 1916, died December 21, 2013, of a Welsh father and a German mother) is an English philosopher -with areas of interest in the history of philosophy, philosophical logic, and the theory of identity. 

Geach was educated in Cardiff (Cathedral school) and Clifton (Somerset), before entering Balliol, Oxford, from which he obtained both his BA and MA.

Geach taught at the University of Birmingham from 1951 until 1966 when he was appointed Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Leeds.

Geach was given the title of Emeritus Professor of Logic on his retirement from Leeds in 1981.

He has been awarded the papal cross "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by the Holy See for his philosophical work.

He married G. E. M. Anscombe, whom he meet while a student at Oxford.

He was, like Grice, FBA.