Rev. Chadwick was best known for his work on the Victorian Church of England, Cardinal John Henry Newman and Michael Ramsey.

He wrote a textbook called "The Pelican History of the Church: The Reformation (1964)", which an obituary in The Guardian described as "the first book on many reading lists for a quarter of a century".

Rev. Chadwick held two Cambridge University chairs over a period of 25 years, was Cambridge's vice-chancellor during the student unrest of the late 1960s, and chaired a commission that transformed the structures of the Church of England.

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