Timeline
John Stott Timeline
1921
1927-1929
King Arthur’s School, Kensington.
1929 -1935
Oakley Hall School.
1935-1940
Rugby School.
1940-1943
Trinity College, Cambridge.
1943-1945
Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
1945-1950
Curate, All Souls, Langham Place.
1950-2011
Rector to 1975, then Rector Emeritus.
1951
Shaped new direction of World Evangelical Fellowship.
1952
Princess Elizabeth became Queen.
1956
Appointed Frances Whitehead.
1959 – 1991
Chaplain to the Queen, then Extra Chaplain to the Queen.
1961
Founder, Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion.
1967
First National Evangelical Anglican Congress (NEAC).
1971
Founded Evangelical Literature Trust, which became part of Langham Partnership International.
1973
UK joined the EEC.
1974
Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Chief Architect of The Lausanne Covenant.
1975
Established first London Lectures in Contemporary Christianity.
1979
Margaret Thatcher became the first woman Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1979
Vice-President (then lifelong Ambassador-at-Large) for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES).
1982
Founded The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.
1983
Received Lambeth DD.
1989
Second Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.
1989
1991
Two Festschriften published for 70th birthday (UK and USA).
1991
Collapse of Soviet Union.
1993
World Trade Center bombed.
1994
Channel Tunnel opened.
1997
Hong Kong returned to China.
2002
Founded Langham Partnership International.
2004
Made lifelong Honorary Chairman, The Lausanne Movement.
2005
Included in TIME magazine’s list of ‘100 most influential people’.
2006
Awarded CBE.
2007
Moved into the College of St Barnabas.
2010
Published his final book The Radical Disciple to say goodbye to his readers.
2011
A Portrait by his Friends published for 90th Birthday.