Researching Edmund Campion
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2098 people with the Campion surname? In that year Campion was ranked number 1776 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Edmund Campion on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Edmund Campion and the Campion Genealogy
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Edmund Campion (historian)
Edmund Campion (born 1933 in Sydney) is an Australian Catholic priest and historian.
He was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview and the University of Sydney, where he was editor of the student newspaper Honi Soit in 1953. He completed a Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge and theological studies at the Catholic Institute of Sydney. He was ordained a priest in 1961 and after curacies at several Sydney parishes including St Mary's Cathedral was appointed a lecturer in history at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, later becoming Professor of History there.
He spoke against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War and in the 1970s was active in residents' action groups in Woolloomooloo.
His books on Australian Catholic History combine a personal point of view with discussions of the wider social context and the impact of Australian Catholics in many fields.
Campion was chairman of the judging panel for the inaugural Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year in 1988. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Sydney in 2005.
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