C. R. Cheney

Christopher Robert Cheney CBE FBA (20 December 1906 – 19 June 1987) was an English medieval historian, noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the papacy with England, particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III.[2][3] He was educated at Banbury County School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1928.[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.
ProfessorBanburyCambridgeAlma materWadham College, OxfordF. M. PowickeMedieval EnglishecclesiasticalUniversity of ManchesterMagdalen College, OxfordCorpus Christi College, CambridgemedievalhistorianpapacyPope Innocent IIIBanbury, OxfordshireBanbury County SchoolUniversity of CairoUniversity College, LondonOxfordreaderdiplomaticMagdalen CollegeProfessor of Medieval HistoryUniversity of CambridgeCorpus Christi CollegeFellow of the British AcademyFord LecturesBrooke, C. N. L.Chibnall, MarjorieDavid KnowlesProfessor of Medieval Historyat the University of CambridgeWalter UllmannErnest Fraser JacobLancashire Parish Register SocietyJohn Michael Wallace-HadrillProfessors of Medieval History at the University of CambridgeCharles Previté-OrtonZachary BrookeJames HoltBarrie DobsonRosamond McKitterickJohn H. Arnold