Known professionally as C.F.D. Moule., was an English Anglican priest and theologian. He was a leading scholar of the New Testament and was Lady Margaret's
Born in Hangzhou, China, near Shanghai, where his father, H.W. Moule and mother were missionaries
His paternal grandfather George Evans Moule was bishop of mid-China, and his great-uncle, Handley Moule, was the first Principal at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and later Bishop of Durham. His family returned to England after the First World War.
Educated at Weymouth College in Dorset
Read Classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours
Studied theology at Ridley Hall
Ordained as a deacon in 1933 and as a priest in 1934
1933-34 - curate at St Mark's Church, Cambridge during which time he was also a tutor at Ridley Hall, Cambridge
1934 - curate of St Andrew's Church, Rugby
1936-40 - curate at Great St Mary's, Cambridge
1936-44 - Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall from 1936 to 1944
1944 - became a Fellow at Clare College, serving as Dean from 1944 to 1951. He remained a Fellow at Clare until his death, and was secretary of the Clare Association for many years.
1944-47 - a Faculty Assistant Lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University, a University Lecturer from 1947 to 1951, when he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge)
1972 - became an honorary Fellow at Emmanuel
1976 - he retired and lived at Ridley Hall
1981 - moved to Pevensey in Sussex.He continued to preach into his 90s.
1958 - honorary Doctorate of Divinity at St Andrew's University
1985 - made a CBE
1988 - honorary Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge