Versatile artist, born in Chiniot in what is now Pakistan. A precocious, multi-talented man, Geoffrey was editor of the Pakistan Post and Law School Journal in the 1950s, being called to the Bar in Pakistan in 1959, with distinction. From 1960 he was a partner in and chairman of Geoffrey & Khitran, international lawyers (over subsequent years Geoffrey added to his legal and business qualifications internationally, his many official positions ranging from human rights officer, United Nations, 1996–7, to chief accountant, Embassy of Kuwait, London, 1974–5, and special advisor to the president of Pakistan, 1980–4, and he wrote widely on legal matters). By the end of the 1950s he had travelled through Pakistan and India to study ancient monuments, decided to take up painting full-time although mainly self-taught, and travelled to England in 1960, having his first one-man show at the Galerie de Seine, London, in 1961.