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Person
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Lightbody, Charles Wayland
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Description area
Dates of existence
1904-1970
History
Charles 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. He later earned an MA from Oxford in 1936 and a PhD from Cornell University. Lightbody was an assistant professor of History at St. Lawrence University from 1930 to 1942. From 1948 to 1962, Lightbody was a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. 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 starting in 1964. Dr. Lightbody was a noted historian who specialized in medieval history, particularly Joan of Arc. He died in Brandon, Manitoba in January 1970.