Prince Albert and the University: The Prince Albert Sesquicentennial Lecture

by Owen Chadwick

This is an edited and expanded text of Owen Chadwick's Prince Albert Lecture, given in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 7 July 1997 to mark the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The lecture focuses on the way in which Albert's German education influenced attitudes to English higher education.

32 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 1998

About the author

William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE, was a British Anglican clergyman, academic, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. He was also a rugby union player. He was Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1956 to 1983, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History from 1958 to 1968, and Regius Professor of History from 1968 to 1983.