Background
FRENI, Technical Director Son of Edwin George Clifford Frend and Edith Frend (nee Bacon).
b 11 January 1916 Shotterhill Surrey
FRENI, Technical Director Son of Edwin George Clifford Frend and Edith Frend (nee Bacon).
Haileyhury College, Keble College Oxford, Sorbonne, Paris and Berlin Universities.
Served in War Office and War Cabinet Offices and as Intelligence Officer. Political Warfare Executive 1940-1947. Full-time; Fellow, Nottingham University 1951-1952.
South. A. Cook Bye-Fellow, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge 1952-1954.
Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer in Church History and Doctrine, Cambridge University 1953-1969, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College 1956-1969, Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology 1961-1969. Professor, of Ecclesiastical History, Glasgow University 1969-1984, Professor Emeritus since 1984.
Priest in Charge of Barnwell and Thurning with Luddington 1984-1990. T.A., rank of Captain 1947-1967.
Ordained Church of England 1982.
President Comite Institute d"Histoire Ecclesiastique Comparee 1980-1983. Vice-President Association Institute d'Etudes Patristiques 1983-1987. Honorary Doctor of Divinity (Edinburgh) 1974.
Amateur Romano-British archaeology", golf, collecting old stamps and coins, gardening.
Editorial Board, German Foreign Ministry Documents 1947-1951.
Married Mary Grace Crook in 1951.