C. R. Cheney

C. R. Cheney
CBE FBA
Born Christopher Robert Cheney
(1906-12-20)20 December 1906
Banbury, England
Died 19 June 1987(1987-06-19) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
Nationality British
Spouse(s)
Mary Hall (m. 1940)
Academic background
Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford
Influences F. M. Powicke[1]
Academic work
Discipline History
Sub-discipline Medieval English ecclesiastical history
Institutions

Christopher Robert Cheney CBE FBA (20 December 1906 – 19 June 1987) was a medieval historian, noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the 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 of Cairo, University College, London (1931–1933), and the University of Manchester (1933–1937) before returning to the Oxford as reader and fellow of Magdalen College in 1937. He married Mary Hall on 24 August 1940.[3][5]

After war service with MI5, he took the 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 Fellow of the British Academy in 1951 and appointed CBE in 1984.[6] He died in Cambridge on 19 June 1987.[4]

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Brooke 1987, p. 428.
  2. ↑ Brooke 1987, pp. 425–426.
  3. 1 2 Pease, Charles E. G. (2015). "The Descendants of William Wilson" (PDF). p. 54. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 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

Brooke, C. N. L. (1987). "Christopher Robert Cheney: 1906–1987" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 73: 425–446. ISSN 0068-1202. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
Chibnall, Marjorie (2004). "Cheney, Christopher Robert (1906–1987)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39802.
Academic offices
Preceded by
David Knowles		 Professor of Medieval History,
University of Cambridge
1955–1972		 Succeeded by
Walter Ullmann



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