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The Very Revd Horace Dammers (1921-2004)

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Edwin King

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Aug 27, 2004, 11:25:52 AM8/27/04
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Alfred Hounsell (Horace) Dammers, Dean of Bristol, 1973-87, died of a heart
attack in hospital in Bristol on 23 August, aged 83.

He was born on 10 June 1921, the son of BFH Dammers. He was educated at
Malvern College.

He served in the Royal Artillery (Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry), 1941-44 before
going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 1945, MA 1947). He undertook
theological training at Wescott House, Cambridge in 1946, was made deacon in
1948 and ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1949. He served as
assistant curate at Adlington, Lancs, 1948-50. He was a lecturer at Queen's
College, Birmingham, and at the same time curate at St Bartholomew's,
Edgbaston, 1950-52. He then served as chaplain and lecturer at St John's
College, Palayamkotti, S India, 1953-57. He was vicar of Holy Trinity,
Millhouses, Sheffield, and examining chaplain to the bishop of Sheffield
1957-65. He was appointed a residentary canon of Coventry Cathedral in 1965,
and dean on Bristol in 1973. On his retirement in 1987 he was made dean
emeritus.

Dammers published several books on Christianity and contributions to the
ecumenical movement.

In 1947 Dammers married Brenda Muriel Stead; she survives him along with
their four children Gill, Chirs, Jane and Jerry.

Edwin King

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Aug 30, 2004, 4:58:46 AM8/30/04
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"Edwin King" <edwin...@DESPAMvirgin.net> wrote in message
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> Alfred Hounsell (Horace) Dammers, Dean of Bristol, 1973-87, died of a
heart
> attack in hospital in Bristol on 23 August, aged 83.


Telegraph obit at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=PJA0FMLFSPD25QFIQMFSM5W
AVCBQ0JVC?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2004/08/30/db3001.xml


Edwin King

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Aug 30, 2004, 7:08:23 PM8/30/04
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> > Alfred Hounsell (Horace) Dammers, Dean of Bristol, 1973-87, died of a
> heart
> > attack in hospital in Bristol on 23 August, aged 83.
>

Guardian obit at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1293824,00.html


Edwin King

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Aug 31, 2004, 7:12:14 PM8/31/04
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"Edwin King" wrote in message news:4oIXc.209$VJ5...@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...

> Alfred Hounsell (Horace) Dammers, Dean of Bristol, 1973-87, died of a
heart
> attack in hospital in Bristol on 23 August, aged 83.

Times obit at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1240909,00.html


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Dom

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Sep 1, 2004, 2:38:23 PM9/1/04
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Of Specials fame, I believe so.

I remember reading a few years ago that his old man was a vicar and
that he'd spent a fair bit of time in Sheffield.


Dom

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