Charles Dundas (priest)

Charles Leslie Dundas (1 November 1847 - 17 March 1932) was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth[1] and early twentieth centuries.[2]

Biography

Born into an ecclesiastical family[3] on 1 November 1847,[4] he was educated at The King's School, Canterbury[5] and Brasenose College,[6]Oxford[7] he was ordained in 1870.[8] After a curacy at St Peter’s, Bournemouth he was Vicar of Charlton Kings from 1875[9] until his appointment as Dean[10] of Hobart and Administrator of the Diocese of Tasmania,[11] a post he accepted in 1885[12] and held for a decade. During this time he was recommended as a suitable candidate for the Bishopric of Tanzania, but was not appointed.[13] After this he held incumbencies at Charminster [14] with Stratton;[15] and then Milton Abbas.[16] He was Archdeacon of Dorset from February 1902[17] to 1926, and a Canon Residentiary at Salisbury Cathedral from 1914 to[18] 1928.

A Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford,[19] he died on 17 March 1932.[20]

Notes

  1. ↑ Tasmanian Anglican
  2. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: administrative records
  3. ↑ His father was The Reverend G. Dundas sometime Vicar of St Matthew’s, Nottingham ‘Dundas, Ven. Charles Leslie’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 Nov 2012
  4. ↑ thePeerage.com
  5. ↑ ”Schola regia cantuariensis: a history of Canterbury School. Commonly called the King's School” Woodruff,C.E: London; Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke; 1908
  6. ↑ ”Brasenose College register, 1509-1909” Penson, T.H: Oxford, Blackwell, 1909
  7. ↑ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Friday, Dec 10, 1869; pg. 3; Issue 26617
  8. ↑ ORDINATIONS The Morning Post (London, England), Monday, December 19, 1870; pg. 3; Issue 30274
  9. ↑ Gloucestershire CC
  10. ↑ Family web site Archived November 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  11. ↑ NLA
  12. ↑ ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Saturday, June 06, 1885; pg. 2; Issue 4067
  13. ↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  14. ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Kellys, 1913
  15. ↑ OPC
  16. ↑ National Archives
  17. ↑ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 20, 1902; pg. 11; Issue 36696
  18. ↑ London Gazette, 15 June 1917
  19. ↑ UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCEThe Morning Post (London, England), Friday, May 02, 1873; pg. 3; Issue 31462
  20. ↑ Canon Dundas The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 18, 1932; pg. 9; Issue 46085.


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