John Lowe (Dean of Christ Church) explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Very Reverend
Dean of Christ Church
John Lowe
Birth Place:	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Death Date:	1960
Religion:	Anglican
Birth Date:	1899

John Lowe (1899–1960) was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, England (1939–59) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1948–51).^[1]

Life

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he studied at Trinity College, Toronto and went on to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar (1922). He returned to Trinity College, where he taught for twelve years, serving as Dean of Divinity (1933–39), before taking up his post at Christ Church, Oxford.

Selected works

• The Lord's prayer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962)
• Saint Peter (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956)
• The interpretation of the Lord's prayer (Evanston: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1955)
• Diocese of Oxford: The cathedral handbook (Oxford: n.p., 1955)

Further reading

• The Munificent Monsieur, Time, 27 September 1948.
• A Question of Continuity, Time, 15 November 1948.

External links

• Details about portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

Notes and References

1. Web site: Previous Vice-Chancellors. University of Oxford, UK. July 13, 2011. 19 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140419085125/https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/. dead.