J. M. Wallace-Hadrill Explained

J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
Honorific Suffix:CBE FRHistS FBA
Birth Date:29 September 1916
Birth Place:Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Nationality:British
Era:Middle Ages
Discipline:History
Sub Discipline:Medieval History
Main Interests:Merovingian period

John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, (29 September 1916  - 3 November 1985) was a British academic and one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period.

Life and career

Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where his father was a master at Bromsgrove School. He was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Manchester between 1955 and 1961. He then became a Senior Research Fellow of Merton College in the University of Oxford (where he held the office of Sub-Warden) from 1961 till 1974.[1] He was Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1974 to 1983 and, between 1974 and 1985, a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1969 and delivered the Ford Lectures in 1971. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society between 1973 and 1976. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982. He is the father of the Roman historian Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and the brother of church historian, D.S. Wallace-Hadrill.[2]

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  1. Book: Levens. R.G.C.. Merton College Register 1900–1964. 1964. Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 372.
  2. Wallace-Hadrill, D.S. (1982). Christian Antioch:a Study of early Christian thought in the East. London: Cambridge University Press. "Forward" p. vii. .