Archbishop of Canterbury. He served in this position from 1974 until 1980. Born Frederick Donald Coggan, his father was the mayor of St. Pancras, London, England and was National President of the Federation of Meat Traders. He was sickly as a child and was taught by a neighbor for four years before being educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, in its former location at Charterhouse Square, London, and was awarded an open exhibition, then a full scholarship to St. John's College at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, where he studied oriental languages from 1928 to 1931 and took a first in both parts of the final honor examinations, achieving a rare and distinguished first-class honors degree in two subjects. From 1931 to 1934 he had positions as an assistant lecturer in Semitic languages and Literature at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England, curate at St. Mary's Church from 1934 to 1937, professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1937 to 1944, and principal of the London College of Divinity (now St. John's College) in Lingfield, Surrey, England from 1944 to 1956. He was ordained a priest in 1935, appointed Bishop of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England in 1956 and became Archbishop of York, York, England in 1961. In 1974 he was elected Archbishop of Canterbury, replacing Archbishop Michael Ramsey who had retired. His tenure as Archbishop was noted for his strong support for the ordination of women (which did not happen in the Church of England until 1994), having proposed it at the Lambeth Conference of the world's Anglican bishops in 1970. His comparatively brief tenure was marked by his boldness, orderliness and punctuality. Aside from his duties of his primacy, he was a prolific writer, with his works including "Call To The Nation" (1975). He also founded the Lord Coggan Memorial Fund which helped to supply Russian children with copies of the Bible. He retired as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1980 and was succeeded by Robert Runcie. After his retirement, he was granted a life peerage and made Baron Coggan of Canterbury and Sissinghurst in the County of Kent. He died in a nursing home at the age of 90, following a long illness.