William Costin (academic)


William Conrad Costin, MC was President of St John's College, Oxford from 1957 to 1963.
Costin was educated at Reading School and St John's College, Oxford. He served in the Great War with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was Proctor of Oxford University in 1935 He wrote: 'Great Britain and China, 1833–1860', 1937; 'The Law and Working of the Constitution: Documents, 1660–1914', 1952; and 'History of St John’s College, 1598–1860', 1958.