Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was an Australian-born Congregational Church minister and author, who became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales and a professor at the University of Manchester.
12 Facts About Hubert Cunliffe-Jones
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of Edinburgh.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones's father was minister of the Strathfield-Homebush Congregational church.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was educated at Newington College and in his final year was awarded one of three Wigram Allen Scholarships.
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In 1921, Hubert Cunliffe-Jones received the scholarship in classics and William Morrow for general proficiency.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones went to the University of Sydney in 1922 and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1925.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones then studied theology at the Camden College, Glebe, and the Melbourne College of Divinity, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was ordained in 1928 and received the call to minister at Warrnambool.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones married his wife of 56 years, Maude Edith Clifton in 1933.
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In 1930, Hubert Cunliffe-Jones went to England and read theology at Mansfield, the then Nonconformist college of the University of Oxford.
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Eleven years later, in 1958, Hubert Cunliffe-Jones was appointed Associate Principal of the Northern Congregational College in Manchester whilst lecturing at the University of Manchester.
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Hubert Cunliffe-Jones died in 1991, survived by two daughters and two sons.