Richard T. France (1938-2012), scholar
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Richard Thomas France (1938-2012) was a British scholar.
Biography
Richard T. France was born on 2 April 1938.
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford (BA, 1960; MA 1963). He earned his BD at Tyndale Hall, University of London (1963) and his PhD at Tyndale Hall, Bristol (1967).
A New Testament scholar, he was Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies (1981–88) and Vice-Principal (1983–88) at London Bible College; and Principal at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University (1989–95). He then served pastoral charges in England and Wales, from 1995 until his retirement in 1999.
France died on February 10, 2012.