Given NameBruce EdgarLast NameMansfieldDate of Birth30/03/1926Date of Death09/09/2017Biography
Educated at Knox Grammar School, to which he held a scholarship and was Dux in 1943. (Leaving Certificate November 1943)
He entered Sydney University in 1944 with a Public Exhibition and a scholarship to St Andrew's College. At Sydney University he received the following prizes:
1944: G.A. Wood Prize for History I
1945: G.A. Wood Prize for History II
1946: J.M.H. Nolan Memorial Prize
1948: First Class Honours & University medal
He received his BA on 28 May 1949, and MA with First Class honours on 16 May 1951.
During his studies he obtained leave of absence from the University in 1947 to attend a World Conference of Christian Youth Meeting in Oslo/Norway.
In 1949 he joined Sydney University as Temporary Lecturer. In 1951 he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of History. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer effective 1 January 1959. On 2 November 1964 Senate approved his promotion to Associate Professor, effective the date of approval. On 7 June 1965 Senate accepted his resignation as from 19 November 1965; Mansfield accepted the appointment to the Chair of History at Macquarie University.
He was holder of the Nuffield Foundation Dominions Travelling Fellowship for study at the University of London, 1952-53; holder of the Fulbright Travel Grant for 1965 for teaching and research at Yale University; Head of Department of Ecclesiastical History, Board of Studies in Divinity, 1964; Member of Board of the University Press, 1963; representative of the Department of History on the Standing Committee of the Faculty of Arts; editor of the Journal of Religious History 1958 onward..
