Alfred Hounsell "Horace" Dammers (10 July 1921 – 23 August 2004) was a British

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dean and author in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

, on 10 July 1921 to a family of Hanoverian origin; his great-grandfather was Adjutant-General to King

George V of Hanover en, George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus , house = Hanover , religion = Protestant , father = Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover , mother = Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , birth_date = 27 May 1819 , ...

. Dammers was educated at Malvern (where he was given the name 'Horace' in reference to his countryman's ruddy complexion) and

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and was ordained in 1948. His first posts were curacies in Adlington and Edgbaston. He was a Lecturer at Queen’s College, Birmingham and then

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of St John’s College, Palayamkottai. Next he became Vicar of Holy Trinity,

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. In 1965 he became a

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and Director of Studies at

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until his appointment as the Dean of Bristol in 1973,'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 a post he held until retirement sixteen years later. He is the father of Jerry Dammers, founder of The Specials and Two Tone Records.

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1921 births 2004 deaths People from Great Yarmouth People educated at Malvern College Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Royal Artillery personnel Deans of Bristol English people of German descent British Army personnel of World War II Military personnel from Norfolk {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub