C. R. Cheney

Professor C. R. Cheney CBE FBA
Born	Christopher Robert Cheney (1906-12-20)20 December 1906 Banbury, England
Died	19 June 1987(1987-06-19) (aged 80) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Spouse	Mary Hall (m. 1940)

Academic background
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Influences	F. M. Powicke^[1]
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval English ecclesiastical history
Institutions	University of Manchester Magdalen College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Cheney was born on 20 December 1906 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to parents George Gardner Cheney and Christina Stapleton Bateman.^[2]^[3] He was educated at Banbury County School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1928.^[4]

He lectured at the University of Cairo, University College, London (1931–1933), and the University of Manchester (1933–1937) before returning to the Oxford in 1937 as readerindiplomatic and fellow of Magdalen College in 1937.^[4] He married Mary Hall on 24 August 1940.^[3]^[5]

After war service with MI5, he took the chair in Medieval History at Manchester in 1945 until his election as the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge in 1955. He remained at Cambridge as a fellow of Corpus Christi College until his retirement in 1972.^[4]

Cheney was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1951 and appointed CBE in 1984.^[6] He died in Cambridge on 19 June 1987.^[4]

Episcopal Visitation of Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century. Publications of the University of Manchester, Historical Series. Vol. 58. Manchester. 1931.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) [revised edition 1983]
English Synodalia of the Thirteenth Century. 1941.
Handbook of Dates for Students of English History. Royal Historical Society, Guides and Handbooks. Vol. 4. London: Royal Historical Society. 1945. [and many later editions]
English Bishops' Chanceries, 1100–1250. University of Manchester Faculty of Arts Publications. Vol. 3. Manchester. 1950.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
with W. H. Semple (eds) Selected Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning England (1198–1216). Medieval Texts series. London: Nelson. 1953.
The Records of Medieval England: an inaugural lecture. Cambridge. 1956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
From Becket to Langton: English church government, 1170–1213. Ford Lectures, Hilary Term 1955. Manchester. 1956.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
with F. M. Powicke (eds) Councils and Synods with other Documents Relating to the English Church, Vol. 2: pt. 1, 1205–1265; pt. 2, 1265–1313. Oxford. 1964.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Hubert Walter. London: Nelson. 1967.
Notaries Public in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972.
Pope Innocent III and England. Päpste und Papsttum. Vol. 9. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersmann. 1976.
The Papacy and England, 12th to 14th Centuries: historical and legal studies. London: Variorum Reprints. 1982. ISBN 0860780996.
The English Church and its Laws, 12th–14th centuries. London: Variorum Reprints. 1982. ISBN 0860781089.
with B. E. A. Jones (eds) English Episcopal Acta II: Canterbury 1162–1190. English Episcopal Acta. Vol. 2. Oxford. 1986.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
with Eric John (eds) English Episcopal Acta III: Canterbury 1193–1205. English Episcopal Acta. Vol. 3. Oxford. 1986.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

^ Brooke 1987, p. 428.

^ Brooke 1987, pp. 425–426.

^ ^a ^b Pease, Charles E. G. (2015). "The Descendants of William Wilson" (PDF). p. 54. Retrieved 18 November 2017.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chibnall 2004.

^ Brett, Martin; Davies, Karen; Duggan, Anne (2008). "Mary Gwendolen Cheney (1917–2007)" (PDF). Novellae: News of Medieval Canon Law. No. 2. Munich: Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law. Retrieved 18 November 2017.

^ Brooke 1987, p. 437.

Works cited

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Brooke, C. N. L. (1987). "Christopher Robert Cheney: 1906–1987" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 73: 425–446. ISSN 0068-1202.
Chibnall, Marjorie (2004). "Cheney, Christopher Robert (1906–1987)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39802. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Academic offices
Preceded by David Knowles	Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge 1955–1972	Succeeded by Walter Ullmann
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Ernest Fraser Jacob	President of the Lancashire Parish Register Society 1946–55	Succeeded by John Michael Wallace-Hadrill

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