Full name: Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson. Asst Curate, St Marys, Donnybrook, Dublin, and later in Banbridge, Co. Down, 1941–45; Vice–Principal, Queen‘s College, Birmingham, 1946–50; Vicar of St John‘s, Shuttleworth, diocese of Manchester, 1950–52; Department of Theology, University of Nottingham, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader, 1952–62; Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham, and Canon of Durham, 1962–64; Professor of Christian Theology, University of Nottingham, 1964–70; Honorary Canon of Southwell, 1964–70; Canon Theologian of Coventry Cathedral, 1967–70; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwell, 1968; Bishop of Clogher, 1970–73; Professor of Historical and Contemporary Theology, University of Manchester