C. W. Dugmore
British ecclesiastical historian
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Clifford William Dugmore (9 May 1909 – 25 October 1990) was a British ecclesiastical historian who contributed to the development of the study of church history in Britain.[1]
Early life and ecclesiastical career
He was the son of a parson and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied the Hebrew language.[1] Dugmore was ordained in 1935 and was appointed vicar of Ward End, rural dean of East Birmingham and installed as honorary canon in St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham.[1][2] In 1937 Dugmore was assistant curate of Holy Trinity, Formby, in the diocese of Liverpool and sub-warden of St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden.[3] The following year Lord Shrewsbury made Dugmore his private chaplain and gave him the rectory of Ingestre-with-Tixall in the diocese of Lichfield.[4] In 1943 Dugmore was appointed chaplain of Alleyn's College of God's Gift in Dulwich.[5] In January 1945 he was made rector of Bredfield-with-Boulge in Suffolk,[6] and in October he was appointed director of religious education for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.[7]
Academic career
In 1946 Dugmore was appointed senior lecturer in ecclesiastical history at Manchester University and in 1958 he was made chair of ecclesiastical history at King's College London.[1][8]
He founded The Journal of Ecclesiastical History in 1950 and was its editor until 1979.[9] He also co-founded the Ecclesiastical History Society.[1]
Personal life
Dugmore had a daughter with his first wife, Ruth, who died in 1977. He subsequently remarried.[1]
Works
- Eucharistic Doctrine in England from Hooker to Waterland: Being the Norrisian Prize Essay in the University of Cambridge for the Year 1940 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1942).
- The Influence of the Synagogue upon the Divine Office (London: Oxford University Press, 1944).
- The Interpretation of the Bible: Edward Alleyn Lectures 1943, edited by C. W. Dugmore (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1946).
- The Mass and the English Reformers (London: Macmillan, 1958).
- Ecclesiastical History No Soft Option: An Inaugural Lecture delivered at King's College, London on 5 February 1959 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1959).