Memorial to Norman Sykes in Winchester Cathedral

Norman Sykes (17 May 1897– 20 March 1961) was a priest in Anglican orders and a distinguished ecclesiastical historian, sometime Professor of History,

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, sometime Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge (1944). He was a Fellow of

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from 1944 to 1958 and an Honorary Fellow from 1958 to 1961.Information from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2016, (and see also his memorial in Winchester Cathedral). His Fellowship of Emmanuel College and the Dixie Professorship both date from 1944. He was Dean of Winchester from 1958 to 1961, dying while in office. A principal contention of his studies was to engage a more positive re-evaluation of the eighteenth century Church of England. His effective use of archives was demonstrated with the papers of William Wake held at

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prior to publication of his two-volume work devoted to that

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Works include

*''William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury 1657-1757,'' 2 vols., Cambridge 1957 *''From Sheldon to Secker, Aspects of English Church History 1660-1757'' (based on Ford Lectures given at Oxford 1958), Cambridge 1959, 2004 *''Old Priest and New Presbyter: The Anglican attitude to episcopacy, presbyterianism and papacy since the Reformation'', Cambridge 1956 *''Church and State in the XVIIIth Century'' (expanded from Birkbeck Lectures 1931-1933], Cambridge 1934, 1962 *''Man as Churchman'' (based on lectures given at Belfast 1959), New York, Cambridge 1960

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sykes, Norman British theologians 20th-century English Anglican priests Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Deans of Winchester 1897 births 1961 deaths Dixie Professors of Ecclesiastical History