1. John McManners was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 1984.
19 Facts About John McManners
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John McManners served as Fellow and Chaplain of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1964 to 2001.
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John McManners's mother was a school teacher who converted his coal miner father to the Anglican faith.
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John McManners's father entered the priesthood, eventually becoming the vicar of Ferryhill and subsequently a canon of Durham Cathedral.
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John McManners attended Spennymoor Grammar School before winning an exhibition to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1936.
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John McManners joined his local regiment the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, where he made his name as a winger in their football team, and completed basic training.
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John McManners was sent to the OCTU at Fenham Barracks where he was put through basic training for a second time, and commissioned.
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John McManners served in the Western Desert Campaign and was at the Siege of Tobruk.
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John McManners was made Adjutant of the First Battalion, under Commanding Officer Lt Col Forbes-Watson.
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John McManners served with the 210 British Liaison Unit in Alexandria to help prepare Greece for the time after the war.
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John McManners studied at St Chad's College, Durham, and was ordained as a deacon in 1947 and a priest in 1948.
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John McManners first served as curate of Leeds Parish Church for 10 months.
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John McManners remained for four years before moving to the University of Sydney as the chair of History from 1960 to 1965.
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John McManners returned to England and Oxford University from 1965 to 1966 to be a senior visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
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In 1972 John McManners was appointed to the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford and returned there, to serve in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
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John McManners retired from teaching in 1984 and was became a chaplain at All Souls College, where he was appointed a college fellow in 1986.
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John McManners won the 1982 Wolfson History Prize for Death and the Enlightenment.
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John McManners was the general editor of the Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity that was published in 1990.
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When doing unrelated research John McManners found a sealed packet of letters that became the basis for this book.