Norman Sykes (priest)

Norman Sykes (17 May 1897– 20 March 1961) was a priest in Anglican orders and a distinguished ecclesiastical historian, sometime Professor of History, Westfield College, London, sometime Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge (1944).
He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1944 to 1958 and an Honorary Fellow from 1958 to 1961.
He was Dean of Winchester from 1958 to 1961, dying while in office.
A principal contention of his studies was to engage a more positive re-evaluation of the eighteenth century Church of England.
His effective use of archives was demonstrated with the papers of William Wake held at Christ Church, Oxford prior to publication of his two-volume work devoted to that archbishop.