Name Horace Dammers Role Author | Died 2004 | |
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Alfred Hounsell Horace Dammers was an Anglican dean and author in the second half of the 20th century.
He was born in Great Yarmouth on 10 July 1921 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 as the Dean of Bristol in 1973, a post he held until retirement sixteen years later. He is the father of Jerry Dammers, founder of The Specials and Two Tone Records.
Dammers died on 23 August 2004.