W. H. C. Frend

Academic career

• Haileybury College
• Keble College, Oxford
• Craven Scholarship to study in Berlin 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
• 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
• 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

• 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, 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
• 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, Philip Rahtz, Günter P. Gehring Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, Nancy Gauthier, and Samuel Turner 2004.

  Family

Major works

• The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa
• Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church
• The Rise of the Monophysite Movement
• ''The Rise of Christianity''

  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

• Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church, AD 337–461