Deacon 1948; priest 1949; Served in Second World War 1943–1945; SSF 1954–1991; Ass. Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge 1961–1966 and Lecturer 1966–1978; Fellow and Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge 1976–1978; Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism 1978–1990; Proctor for Northern Universities in Convocation of York and General Synod of Church of England 1980–1990; Canon Theologian, Leicester Cathedral 1977–1991; Died on 21st October 1991.