Norman Sykes (priest)

Norman Sykes
Born	(1897-05-17)17 May 1897 Liversedge, West Yorkshire, England
Died	20 March 1961(1961-03-20) (aged 63)

Academic background
Education	Heckmondwike Grammar School University of Leeds
Alma mater	The Queen's College, Oxford
Thesis	Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London (1669–1748) (1922)
Doctoral advisor	Edward William Watson
Other advisors	Arthur James Grant Charles Firth
Academic work
School or tradition	Evangelical school of church history
Institutions	King's College London (1924–31) University College of the South West of England (1931–33) Westfield College (1933–1944) The Queen's College, Oxford (1943–45) University of Cambridge (1945–1958)
Doctoral students	Roland Oliver

Norman Sykes FBA (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).