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] In January 1900, the Bishop of Salisbury awarded him a prebendal stall.[17] He was Archdeacon of Dorset from February 1902[18] to 1926, and a Canon Residentiary at Salisbury Cathedral from 1914 to[19] 1928.

A Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford,[20] he died on 17 March 1932.[21]

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. 23 January 1900. p. 8.
  18. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, Feb 20, 1902; pg. 11; Issue 36696
  19. London Gazette, 15 June 1917
  20. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCEThe Morning Post (London, England), Friday, May 02, 1873; pg. 3; Issue 31462
  21. Canon Dundas The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 18, 1932; pg. 9; Issue 46085.


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