He was also elected president of Cambridge University RFC in 1973.

As vice-chancellor from 1969 to 1971, he guided Cambridge through turbulent times in the late 1960s, including the Garden House riot in 1970. A few years later, in 1968, he was elected to the position of Regius Professor of Modern History, an ancient chair, which he held until 1982, and was President of the British Academy during the early 1980s. He then became an honorary fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1964. In 1958 he was named Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University. He became a university theology lecturer in 1949 and published his first book on the 5th-century monk John Cassian in 1950. He also played rugby during the war, for Blackheath, and for an England team that played against New Zealand.Īfter the war, he was made chaplain and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1947, and then Dean of Chapel. He served as a curate at St John's Church in Huddersfield for two years and was then chaplain of Wellington College in Berkshire until the end of the Second World War. He then attended Cuddesdon College (a theological college) and was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood of the Church of England in 19, respectively. Having been influenced by Martin Charlesworth and Martin Niemöller in 1938, he took a First in theology at Cambridge in 1939.

Ĭhadwick graduated with a First in History in 1938. During the 1937/38 season, Chadwick played for invitational touring side, the Barbarians. The British team won all ten of its matches.

Although no caps were awarded on this tour, Chadwick did play in the one match against the full Argentina side, playing in his favoured position of hooker in a 23–0 victory. In 1936, during his first year at Cambridge, he was selected to tour with a British Lions team in their third trip to Argentina. in the annual Varsity Match against Oxford University in 1936, 19 (as captain). He received three Blues in rugby playing as hooker for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. He then studied classics at St John's College, Cambridge.

He was school captain and captain of the rugby team. His eldest brother was sent to Eton College, but Chadwick was educated at Tonbridge School from 1929 to 1935. He was an elder brother of the Very Reverend Henry Chadwick, also a distinguished professor and historian of the early Church, and a younger brother of Sir John Chadwick KCMG, a diplomat whose senior posting was as British Ambassador to Romania. University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, Cambridge, St John's College, CambridgeĬhadwick was born in Bromley, Kent, in 1916, the third of six children of John Chadwick, a barrister, and his wife Edith (née Horrocks).

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