Head and shoulders image of Dr. Charles W. Lightbody, Professor, Department of History, 1948-1963.

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Charles Wayland Lightbody was born in Kansas in 1904. He obtained a BA from the University of Saskatchewan in 1924 and an MA from the University of Toronto in 1925. He was a Rhodes Scholar for Saskatchewan in 1925 and he earned a BA from Oxford in 1928. Dr. Lightbody later earned an MA from Oxford in 1936 and a PhD from Cornell University. Dr. Lightbody was an assistant professor of History at St. Lawrence University from 1930-1942. From 1948-1962 Dr. Lightbody was a rofessor in the Department of History at the U of S. He spent a year at the Regina campus before taking a position at Brandon University (then Brandon College) in 1963. He was named head of the History Department at Brandon University in 1964. He was a noted historian who specialized in medieval history, particularly Joan of Arc. Dr. Lightbody died in Brandon in January 1970.