(David) Colin Dunlop (31 July 1897 – 23 February 1968) was an

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in the 20th century. Son of Scottish East India merchant David Jugurtha Dunlop, of 25, Wickham Road,

Beckenham Beckenham () is a town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. Prior to 1965, it was part of Kent. It is situated north of Elmers End and Eden Park, east of Penge, south of Lower Sydenham and Bellingham, and west ...

, Kent (now

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), and Laura Frances, née Beddard, Dunlop was educated at

Radley Radley is a village and civil parish about northeast of the centre of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Lower Radley on the River Thames. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfor ...

and

New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ...

(BA 1921, MA 1924), and was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

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

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at St Mary,

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, after which he became

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to George Bell,

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, and Chaplain at

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. Appointed

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of St Thomas Hove and then

Henfield Henfield is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies south of London, northwest of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester at ...

, in 1940 he became

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of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh before elevation to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ...

Bishop of Jarrow The Bishop of Jarrow is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Durham, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the former Anglo Saxon monastery in the town of Jarrow in Tyne ...

(and

Archdeacon of Auckland The archdeaconry of Auckland is a post in the Church of England Diocese of Durham. It was created from the Archdeaconry of Durham by Order-in-Council on 23 May 1882, when the Diocese of Newcastle was created from Durham's other two archdeaconrie ...

) five years later. In 1949 he became

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, a post he held until he retired in November 1964. Early in 1950, he was also appointed an

Assistant Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Lincoln is the ordinary (diocesan bishop) of the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury. The present diocese covers the county of Lincolnshire and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and ...

; which post he retained till 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’. He published the guide ''Lincoln Cathedral'', 1978. His granddaughter,

Fuchsia Dunlop Fuchsia Charlotte DunlopCambridge University List of Members, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 225 is an English writer and cook who specialises in Chinese cuisine, especially Sichuan cuisine. She is the author of seven books, including the ...

, is a food writer.Corpus Christi College Oxford Biographical Register 1880-1974, Corpus Christi College, 1988, p. 647

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 {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub