Ballot Archive

26 Sep 2024

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Michael Wheeler

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA, PhD, Hon DUniv (Surrey). Magdalene College Cambridge, 1967-70 (double first in English, Scholar).

Profession or occupation

Retired Prof. of English, Author & so much more.

Grounds for election

Appointments: Univ. Lancaster: Professor, 1990-99 (Founding Director, Ruskin Project; Director of Chawton House Library & Prof. of English Literature, Univ. Southampton, 1999-2001; Lay Canon & member of Chapter, Winchester Cathedral, 2005-8; NADFAS Lecturer, 2006-16. Trustee, Gladstone’s Library, 1994-2022 (Chair for 4 years); Chair, Murray Bequest to Birkbeck College, 1994- ; Bishops’ Selection Adviser, 2003-7; Director, Guild of St George, 2004-7; Governor, The Pilgrims’ School, 2005-7, 2017-22; Chairman, Library Committee, Athenæum, 2008-11; Fabric Advisory Committee, Winchester Cathedral (2015- ). Main publications: (author) The Art of Allusion in Victorian Fiction (Macmillan, 1979), English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890 (Longman, 1985, 2nd edn 1994), Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (CUP, 1990) etc. Currently completing William Ewart Gladstone: The Heart and Mind of a Statesman, OUP Spiritual Lives series.

Signatories

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