|
Birkbeck Lecture In Ecclesiastical History
The Birkbeck Lectures in Ecclesiastical History have been held at Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ..., since 1886. ''Trinity College, Cambridge''. Retrieved 15 February 2021. Lectures The source for the list below is"Past Birkbeck Lectures" ''Trinity College, Cambridge''. Retrieved 15 February 2021. See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or University of Oxford, Oxford. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Trinity Great Court, Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017. Trinity was the top-performing college for the 2020-21 undergraduate exams, obtaining the highest percentage of good honours. Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of Cambridge University (the highest of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge). Members of the college have received four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zachary Brooke (historian)
Zachary Nugent Brooke (1883–1946) was a British medieval historian. Life Born on 1 December 1883, Brooke was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and St John's College, Cambridge. In 1908, he was elected to a Drosier Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He was appointed as the second Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge in 1944. He was appointed as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1940. Retrieved 21 December 2019. Brooke is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, off Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, with his wife Rosa Grace Brooke (1888-1964). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Wood-Legh
Kathleen Louise Wood-Legh (1901–1981) was a Canadian historian, specialising in medieval social and economic history. Life Born in Mount Forest, Ontario, Kathleen Wood-Legh was blind from childhood. After completing a BA in 1923 and an MA in 1924, both at McGill University, she travelled to England with her family for further study. In 1926 she began a PhD at Newnham College under the supervision of G.G. Coulton on church life in medieval England, completed in 1932. Despite glowing references from G.M. Trevelyan, she was unable to secure a permanent academic position and became a tutor and supervisor for undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge. In 1938 she played a leading role in a number of refugee committees, including the Cambridge Refugee Committee, which helped scholars at threat from the expansion of Nazi Germany, and the Cambridge Children’s Refugee Committee, which found homes for displaced Jewish children. With Anna McClean Bidder, in 1950 she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Lawrence Greenslade
Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, FBA (14 May 1905 – 8 December 1977) was an English theologian, ecclesiastical historian and clergyman. He held the Regius Professorship of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1959 to 1972. Early life and education Born on 14 May 1905 into a Methodist family, he was the son of William Greenslade, a Bristol- and Woodford-based businessman, and Alice, ''née'' Sear. The family's finances were often stretched, but Greenslade probably developed a love of reading from his mother. He was educated at a state school in Woodford; from there, he won a highly competitive scholarship to Christ's Hospital. There, under the headship of William Hamilton Fyfe, he enjoyed a rich musical and classical education, and won a classical scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, where he studied under J. D. Denniston. He graduated with a second-class degree in 1927. By that time, he had turned to Anglicanism and spent a year reading for the theology h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Vidler
Alexander Roper Vidler (1899–1991), known as Alec Vidler, was an English Anglican priest, theologian, and ecclesiastical historian, who served as Dean of King's College, Cambridge, for ten years from 1956 and then, following his retirement in 1966, as Mayor of Rye, Sussex. Biography Vidler was born on 27 December 1899 in Rye, Sussex, the son of shipowner and amateur local historian (author of ''A New History of Rye'', published in 1934, and ''The Story of the Rye Volunteers'', published in 1954) Leopold Amon Vidler (1870–1954) of The Stone House, Rye, and his wife Edith Hamilton, daughter of Edward Roper. The shipowning Vidler family had a long association with Rye, with Alec's great-grandfather, John Vidler, vice-consul for France, Sweden, Norway, and the Hanse Towns, being an alderman of the town, and his descendants serving as mayors, aldermen and councillors. Thus, Alec Vidler's father, grandfather and great-grandfather served as Mayor of Rye. The founder of Asch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Deanesley
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * (Welsh) Second half * (English), (Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Outram Evennett
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
