Charles Ernest Burland Cranfield FBA (13 September 1915 – 27 February 2015) was a British theologian, academic, and Christian minister.
Cranfield was born in Winchmore Hill, London on 13 September 1915 to parents Charles Ernest Cranfield (a town clerk and Methodist preacher) and Beatrice Mary, née Tubbs (an artist).
Cranfield attended Mill Hill School and gained a first class degree in classics in 1936 from Jesus College, Cambridge.
[2][3][4][5][6] On 7 April 1953, Cranfield married Ruth Elizabeth Gertrude Bole in Bath.
Cranfield died on 27 February 2015 as a result of pneumonia and was buried at South Road Cemetery.