(David) Colin Dunlop (31 July 1897 – 23 February 1968) was an
Anglican bishop
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in the 20th century.
Educated at
Radley
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and
New College, Oxford, he was
ordained
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after
wartime service. He enlisted in 1915 as ‘Medically A1’ and served with the 3rd Buffs in France. He was a lieutenant when he relinquished command to attend New College. His first post was as a
curate at St Mary,
Primrose Hill
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, after which he became
Chaplain to
George Bell George Bell may refer to:
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,
Bishop of Chichester
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, and Chaplain at
St Peter and St Sigfrid's Church in
Stockholm. Appointed
Vicar
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of
St Thomas Hove and then
Henfield
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, in 1940 he became
Provost of
St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh before elevation to the
episcopate
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as
Bishop of Jarrow (and
Archdeacon of Auckland
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) five years later. In 1949 he became
Dean of Lincoln
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Assistant Bishop of Lincoln
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; which post he retained til his 1964 retirement from the Deanery.
In 1955 he was appointed the first chair of the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England.
There is a description of him during his time in Jarrow ‘In appearance, he was a striking character, good looking and unusual in the gift of preaching a sermon in the grand manner of a former age’.
['Memories' by CHG Hopkins,D Brown and Son,p42]
References
1897 births
People educated at Radley College
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Provosts of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)
Bishops of Jarrow
Archdeacons of Auckland
Deans of Lincoln
20th-century Church of England bishops
1968 deaths
Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) officers
British Army personnel of World War I
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