John Gordon Davies (1919–1990) was the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the

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. He was educated at King's School (Chester),

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. He worked in the dockland parish of Rotherhithe before joining the University of Birmingham, and he was also Director of the Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture in the University. He was born into a family of wine and spirits merchants in Chester and after switching from History to Theology at Oxford, trained for the Anglican Ministry at Cambridge where he met and married (Emily) Mary Tordoff. He was a pacifist during the war. After he moved to Birmingham he became a prolific theologian, writing about 1 book per year. Their second daughter Sally Davies became Chief Medical Officer of England and the first female Master of

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.Dame Professor Sally Davies
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1919 births 1990 deaths Academics of the University of Birmingham 20th-century British theologians {{UK-theologian-stub