awarded by the Society of Antiquaries for archaeology, history and topography of the early Christian Church. Recipients include Harold McCarter Taylor and Charles Thomas (1981), Philip Rahtz (2003), Günter P. Gehring (2000) Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle (1986), Nancy Gauthier (2002), and Samuel Turner 2004. Family Frend was married to Mary Grace (née Crook; 1951–2002). They had one son, Simon, and one daughter, Sally. His father was a priest of high church persuasion. Major works The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa (1952) Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (1965) The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972) The Rise of Christianity (1984) Works and publications The Donatist Church: A Movement of Protest in Roman North Africa, 1952 Early Church, 1964 Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, 1965 Saints & Sinners in the Early Church: Differing & Conflicting Traditions in the First Six Centuries, 1970 The Rise of the Monophysite Movement, 1972 Religion, Popular and Unpopular in the Early Christian Centuries, 1976 Town and Country in the Early Christian Centuries, 1980 The Rise of Christianity, 1984 Archaeology and History in the Study of Early Christianity, 1988 The Archaeology of Early Christianity: A History, 1996 Orthodoxy, Paganism and Dissent in the Early Christian Centuries, 2002 From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed, 2003 Works co-authored with J. Stevenson A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337J. Stevenson (Editor of the 1957 First Edition), William H. C. Frend (Co-Revisor for the 1987 Second Edition) Creeds, Councils and Controversies: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church, AD 337–461J. Stevenson (Editor of the 1966 First Edition), William H. C. Frend (Co-Revisor for the 1989 Second Edition) See also List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow Trinity College, Glasgow References External links Church Times obituary Telegraph obituary The Times obituary The Independent obituary 1916 births 2005 deaths Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the British Academy Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society Academics of the University of Glasgow 20th-century English Anglican priests English Christians Anglican scholars Scottish Episcopalian priests Historians of Christianity 20th-century English historians British historians of religion