Revd Colin Morris

It is with great sadness that the College has learned of the death of Emeritus Fellow and former Chaplain Revd Colin Morris.

Born in 1928, The Revd Colin Morris graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford in 1948 and 1951, having read Modern History and Theology. In 1953 he was ordained as a deacon, and a year later as a priest.

Morris joined Pembroke in 1953 as Chaplain and Fellow in Medieval History. He became a popular and well-respected figure during his sixteen years at the College, and the chapel community flourished under his ministry. Revd Dr John Platt, his successor, wrote of him in the Pembroke Record: ‘I can speak at first hand of the great respect and affection in which we held his wise and yet unobtrusive guidance.’

In 1969 he was elected Supernumerary Fellow of Pembroke after leaving Oxford to take up a new appointment at the University of Southampton. Here he was Professor of Medieval History (1969 - 1993) and Emeritus Professor from 1993. He was elected as an Honorary Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford in 2009.

Morris was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1998 – 2000), and was awarded Fellowship of the British Academy (2007) and of the Royal Historical Society. He wrote extensively about medieval England, with a focus on the ecclesiastical and social history of the Middle Ages; the Crusades; and the influence of the Holy Sepulchre on the culture of Western Europe.

Read more about the Revd Colin Morris here:

Obituary: The Revd Professor Colin Morris (churchtimes.co.uk)
Colin Morris obituary | History books | The Guardian