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Owen Chadwick

English academic, priest and rugby union player (1916-2015) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 99

William Owen Chadwick was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. As a leading academic, Chadwick became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1958, serving until 1968, and from 1968 to 1983 was Regius Professor of History.

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Wolfson History Prize1981

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Chadwick was elected master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and served from 1956 to 1983.

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