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Auction: 23113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 446

Pair: Lieutenant D. C. Dunlop, East Kent Regiment and later Dean of Lincoln

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut C. D. Dunlop), mounted as worn good very fine (2)

David Colin Dunlop was born on 31 July 1897, he was educated at Radley School and later New College, Oxford. He served overseas in France with the East Kent Regiment from 5 September 1916. After the Great War he was ordained in 1922. His first post was as a Curate at St. Mary, Primrose Hill, London. Dunlop then became Chaplain to George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, and Chaplain at St. Peter and St. Sigfrid's Church in Stockholm, Sweden. He was appointed Vicar of St. Thomas, Hove and then Henfield, Sussex. In 1940 he became Provost of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh before elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Jarrow (and Archdeacon of Auckland) five years later. In 1949 he became Dean of Lincoln a post he held until he retired in 1964. In 1955 he was appointed the first chair of the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England. Dunlop died on 23 February 1968.

Sold with a copy of 'From London to Lincoln via Baghdad, The Life of Bishop Colin Dunlop 1897-1968', based on his journals, articles and letters, by Francis Dunlop.

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Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£140