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Lot: 307

St. John's College [Durham] owes more to him than any man in its whole history, for his long wise and devoted service and his name was on our hearts and on our lips at the Jubilee'

Sir James Duff on Wallis

The campaign group of three awarded to Reverend C. S. Wallis, Army Chaplain's Department, who penned Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship on his service in the Great War, latterly Canon of Durham Cathedral and Principal of St. John's College, Durham

1914-15 Star (Rev. C. S. Wallis. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals (Rev. C. S. Wallis.), good very fine (3)

Charles Steel Wallis was born in 1875 at Newark-on-Trent. Educated at Hatton House, Durham University and the London College of Divinity, he was appointed Deacon in 1902 and Priest in 1903. Vice-Principal of St. John's College, Durham from 1912-19, he served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Great War. During that period he penned an account of his war which was published as Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship by 'The Padre' in 1917.

Returned home to Durham, Wallis was made Principal of St. John's College in 1919, a post he held until 1945. In this time he lectured on Ecclesiastical History (1920-31), was elected to the Senate (1921) and was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. He was Honorary Canon to the Cathedral from 1937.

Besides publishing on his war service, Wallis co-edited Bedae, Historiae Ecclesiasticae, Book III and edited Augsutini, De Cathechizandis Rudibus. He died in June 1959; sold together with a copy of his book, besides a quantity of copied research.

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