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. 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. Wallace-Hadrill 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. == Bibliography ==