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The ReverendW. H. C. FrendFSA FRSE FRHistS FBA
Born	William Hugh Clifford Frend (1916-01-11)11 January 1916 Shottermill, England
Died	1 August 2005(2005-08-01) (aged 89)
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Mary Frend (m. 1951; died 2002)


Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Anglican)
Church	Scottish Episcopal Church Church of England
Ordained	1982 (deacon) 1983 (priest)




Academic background
Education	Keble College, Oxford (BA, MA, DPhil)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Ecclesiastical history
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Glasgow
Influenced	Peter Brown



Military career
Service	British Army
Unit	Queen's Royal Regiment

William Hugh Clifford Frend FSA FRSE FRHistS FBA (11 January 1916 – 1 August 2005) was an English ecclesiastical historian, archaeologist, and Anglican priest.

Academic career

Haileybury College (scholar)
Keble College, Oxford (scholar, BA first class in modern history 1937, MA 1951, DPhil with thesis on Donatists 1940, DD 1966)
Craven Scholarship to study in Berlin (with Hans Lietzmann) and North Africa
Research fellowship at University of Nottingham
Associate Director, Egypt Exploration Society, Q'asr Ibrim, Nubia 1963–64
Bye Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BD 1964)
Fellow and university lecturer in divinity. During this time Charles III, then reading archaeology and anthropology at Trinity, was one of his students.
Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, in the University of Glasgow 1969–84 (Emeritus 1984–2005)
Chairman, Association of University Teachers 1976–78
Frend once stood for local government as Liberal Party candidate in Cambridge
In the 1980s he worked at Carthage with a team from the University of Michigan
In retirement was again elected Bye Fellow of Caius and in his last years wrote a new book about the early life of Augustine

Military career

Assistant Principal, War Office 1940
Seconded to Cabinet Office and served on Committees for Allied Supplies and the Free French
Liaison officer, Psychological Warfare Branch, Tunis
Service in Austria for 18 months
Italy
Commissioned officer, Queen's Royal Regiment 1947–67

Ministry

Frend inclined towards the low church tradition. He was a sometimes reluctant liberal who cautiously supported the ordination of women but criticised Bishop David Jenkins of Durham over his non-traditional ideas about Christmas. He was considered a good and humble pastor and an enlightening, if theologically unconventional, preacher.

Reader 1956–82
Ordained deacon in the Scottish Episcopal Church 1982
Non stipendiary minister, Aberfoyle 1982–84
Ordained priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church 1983
Priest-in-charge, Barnwell with Thurning and Luddington 1984–90
Permission to officiate in the Diocese of Ely 1990–2005
Until his death, he continued to take two services every month

Public recognition

Złoty Krzyż Zasługi z Mieczami (Gold Cross of Merit with Swords), Government of the Polish Republic in Exile
Territorial Efficiency Decoration 1959
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1952
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1954
President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1971–72)
D.D. honoris causa, University of Edinburgh 1974
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1979
Fellow of the British Academy 1983
He set up and financed the Frend Medal, awarded by the Society of Antiquaries for archaeology, history and topography of the early Christian Church. Recipients include Harold McCarter Taylor and Charles Thomas (1981), Philip Rahtz (2003), Günter P. Gehring (2000) Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle (1986), Nancy Gauthier (2002), and Samuel Turner 2004.

Family

Frend was married to Mary Grace (née Crook; 1951–2002). They had one son, Simon, and one daughter, Sally. His father was a priest of high church persuasion.

Major works

The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (1951)
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (1965)
The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972)
The Rise of Christianity (1984)

Works and publications

The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa, 1951
Early Church, 1964
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, 1965
Saints & Sinners in the Early Church: Differing & Conflicting Traditions in the First Six Centuries, 1970
The Rise of the Monophysite Movement, 1972
Religion, Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries, 1976
Town and Country in the Early Christian Centuries, 1980
The Rise of Christianity, 1984
Archaeology and History in the Study of Early Christianity, 1988
The Archaeology of Early Christianity: A History, 1996
Orthodoxy, Paganism and Dissent in the Early Christian Centuries, 2002
From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed, 2003

Works co-authored with J. Stevenson

A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337
J. Stevenson (Editor of the 1957 First Edition), William H. C. Frend (Co-Revisor for the 1987 Second Edition)
Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church, AD 337–461
J. Stevenson (Editor of the 1966 First Edition), William H. C. Frend (Co-Revisor for the 1989 Second Edition)

References

Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Volume 83, 2003". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. archaeology, history and topography of the early Christian Church
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Harold McCarter Taylor, C.B.E., T.D., M.A., MSc, PhD". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Charles Thomas
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Volume 80, 2000". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Günter P Gehring
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. 1986
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Volume 82, 2002". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Nancy Gauthier
"Society of Antiquaries of London – Salon 87 – 25 April 2004". sal.org.uk. 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Samuel Turner
"Books by William H.C. Frend".

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Academic offices
Preceded byJohn Foster	Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow 1969–1984	Succeeded byIan Hazlett
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byW. R. Ward	President of the Ecclesiastical History Society 1971–1972	Succeeded byGeoffrey Nuttall

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