Professor
C. R. Cheney
CBE FBA
Born
Christopher Robert Cheney

(1906-12-20)20 December 1906
Banbury, England
Died19 June 1987(1987-06-19) (aged 80)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Mary Hall
​
(m. 1940)​
Academic background
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
InfluencesF. M. Powicke[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineMedieval English ecclesiastical history
Institutions

Christopher Robert Cheney CBE FBA (20 December 1906 – 19 June 1987) was an English 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 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 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]

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 byDavid Knowles Professor of Medieval Historyat the University of Cambridge 1955–1972 Succeeded byWalter Ullmann Professional and academic associations Preceded byErnest Fraser Jacob President of the Lancashire Parish Register Society 1946–55 Succeeded byJohn Michael Wallace-Hadrill
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