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I was elected to the Fellowship in 2013 as Dean, becoming Praelector in 2014, and elected to an Emeritus Fellowship in 2018 after retiring as Dean. Since 2019 I have also been a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Peru. 

Fr Alban McCoy was educated at the Universities of Kent and Oxford. After ordination in 1975 as a priest in the Franciscan Order (OFM Conventual), he served as a curate in a far-flung rural parish in Lincolnshire, where he was also for three years a Chaplain in the Royal Air Force at RAF Digby, an intelligence gathering base. He was Dean of Studies at the Franciscan Study Centre, Canterbury (1982-91), where he also taught philosophy and, at the University of Kent, medieval theology. After Canterbury, he was Dean of Philosophy at Allen Hall, London, the Westminster Diocesan Seminary (1992-98). Moving to Cambridge, he became Catholic Chaplain to the University of Cambridge from 1998 to 2013. From 1995 to 2020, he was the Religious Books Editor at The Tablet, the London-based international Catholic weekly newspaper, where he is now Editorial Consultant and wine writer. He is the author of An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Catholicism (Continuum-Bloomsbury 2001), An Intelligent Persons Guide to Christian Ethics (Continuum-Bloomsbury 2006) and co-editor of The Diary of Thomas Rowcroft: British Consul in Peru 1824, (Asociación Cultural Peruano Británico 2023). His research interests are St Thomas Aquinas’s natural and moral theology, in particular, his virtue ethics. He also held the positions of Dean (2013-18), Acting Dean (2018-20), Second Bursar (2014-19), Wine Steward (2018-23).”