Edmund Colledge was an English academic, military officer, and Roman Catholic priest.
12 Facts About Edmund Colledge
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Edmund Colledge is chiefly known for his scholarly publications on European medieval literature, in particular spiritual writers from that era.
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Edmund Colledge later earned an MA from LU in 1935, and served as an Assistant Lecturer in LU's Department of English Language and Philology from 1937 to 1939.
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Edmund Colledge was an excellent linguist with mastery of the French, German and Dutch languages.
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Edmund Colledge was recruited by British Intelligence shortly after the outbreak of World War II, and spent the war working on military intelligence for Great Britain.
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Edmund Colledge returned to LU in 1946 as a full Lecturer, and was appointed Senior Lecturer and Reader.
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Edmund Colledge lectured on medieval literature and the history of the English language.
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In 1963, Edmund Colledge resigned from his post at LU in order to join the Order of Saint Augustine at Clare Priory in Suffolk.
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Edmund Colledge pursued further religious studies in Rome, after which he was ordained a priest in 1967.
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Edmund Colledge was after promoted to full Professor at that institution, remaining there through 1977.
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Edmund Colledge then returned to England to join the teaching staff at Austin Friars St Monica's School in Carlisle.
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Edmund Colledge lived his latter years in Kent and died in Deal in 1999 at the age of 89.