Owen Chadwick KBE OM was President of British Academy 1981–85, at the pinnacle of a career in which he was the longest-serving Head of any Oxford or Cambridge college in modern times (27 years), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge in difficult times (1969– 71), and Regius Professor of History at Cambridge 1968–83. He chaired the Archbishops’ Commission on the relations of Church and State (1966–70), and sat on innumerable commissions and committees. Yet he found time to write 23 books and publish about 70 essays, many versions of public lectures delivered in all five continents. He was not only admired but much loved as a man of towering integrity, effortless charm and modesty.
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