Gilley, Sheridan 1945–

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Gilley, Sheridan 1945–

(Sheridan Wayne Gilley)

PERSONAL: Born April 27, 1945, in Brisbane, Australia; son of Wayne Grover (a journalist) and Betty Margaret Gilley; married Margaret Mary Haworth (a health care executive and vicar), June 15, 1974; children: Christopher Richard, Elizabeth Susannah. Ethnicity: "White." Education: University of Queensland, B.A. (with first class honors), 1966; Cambridge University, Ph.D., 1971. Religion: "Roman Catholic (since 1993)."

ADDRESSES: Home—Durham, England. Office—c/o Department of Theology, University of Durham, Abbey House, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RS, England.

CAREER: University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, lecturer in ecclesiastical history, 1971–78; University of Durham, Durham, England, lecturer, 1978–82, senior lecturer, 1982–94, reader in theology, 1994–2002, reader emeritus, 2002–.

MEMBER: Royal Historical Society (fellow), Ecclesiastical History Society, Victorian Society, William Morris Society.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Roger Swift) The Irish in the Victorian City, Croom Helm (Dover, NH), 1985.

(Editor, with Roger Swift) The Irish in Britain, 1815–1939, Barnes & Noble Books (Savage, MD), 1989.

Newman and His Age (biography of Cardinal John Henry Newman), Darton, Longman & Todd (London, England), 1990, Christian Classics (Westminster, MD), 1991.

(Editor, with W.J. Sheils) A History of Christianity in Britain, Blackwell Publishing (Malden, MA), 1994.

(Editor, with Roger Swift) The Irish in Victorian Britain: The Local Dimension, Four Courts Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1999.

(Editor) Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland, Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, England), 2005.

(With Brian Stanley) World Christianities, c. 1815–1914, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 2006.

Contributor of articles to periodicals.

SIDELIGHTS: Sheridan Gilley once told CA: "My main interests are the history of Christianity and of modern English and Irish society."