C. R. Cheney

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CBE FBA
Born
Christopher Robert Cheney

(1906-12-20)20 December 1906
Banbury, England
Died19 June 1987(1987-06-19) (aged 80)
, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Mary Hall
(m. 1940)
Academic background
ecclesiastical history
Institutions

Christopher Robert Cheney

papacy with England, particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III
.

Life

Cheney was born on 20 December 1906 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to parents George Gardner Cheney and Christina Stapleton Bateman.[2][3] He was educated at Banbury County School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1928.[4]

He lectured at the

University College, London (1931–1933), and the University of Manchester (1933–1937) before returning to the Oxford in 1937 as reader in diplomatic and fellow of Magdalen College in 1937.[4] He married Mary Hall on 24 August 1940.[3][5]

After war service with

chair in Medieval History at Manchester in 1945 until his election as the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge in 1955. He remained at Cambridge as a fellow of Corpus Christi College until his retirement in 1972.[4]

Cheney was elected a

CBE in 1984.[6] He died in Cambridge on 19 June 1987.[4]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Brooke 1987, p. 428.
  2. ^ Brooke 1987, pp. 425–426.
  3. ^ a b Pease, Charles E. G. (2015). "The Descendants of William Wilson" (PDF). p. 54. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d Chibnall 2004.
  5. ^ Brett, Martin; Davies, Karen; Duggan, Anne (2008). "Mary Gwendolen Cheney (1917–2007)" (PDF). Novellae: News of Medieval Canon Law. No. 2. Munich: Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  6. ^ Brooke 1987, p. 437.

Works cited

Academic offices
Preceded by Professor of Medieval History
at the University of Cambridge

1955–1972
Succeeded by
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Ernest Fraser Jacob
President of the Lancashire Parish Register Society
1946–55
Succeeded by