Alfred Hounsell Horace Dammers was an Anglican Dean[1] and author[2] in the second half of the 20th century.
He was born in Great Yarmouth[3] on 10 July 1921[4] and educated at Malvern and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War II and was ordained in 1948. His first posts were curacies in Adlington and Edgbaston. He was a Lecturer at Queen’s College, Birmingham and then Chaplain of St John’s College, Palayamkottai. Next he became Vicar of Holy Trinity, Millhouses. In 1965 he became a Canon Residentiary and Director of Studies at Coventry Cathedral until his appointment to the Deanery of Bristol Cathedral in 1973, .[5] a post he held until retirement sixteen years later. He died on 23 August 2004.
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| Preceded by Douglas Ernest William Harrison |
Deans of Bristol 1973 –1987 |
Succeeded by Arthur Wesley Carr |