Frederick Homes Dudden

{{Short description|Theologian and academic administrator (1874–1955)}}

Frederick Homes Dudden (1874–1955) was an academic administrator and theological scholar.[http://economia.unipv.it/harrod/edition/editionstuff/rfh.473.htm Dudden, Frederick Homes]. He was Chaplain to King George V and George VI (1929–52), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford (1918–55)[http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/about/history/masters Masters of Pembroke College, Oxford]. and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1929–32).{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/|title=Previous Vice-Chancellors | publisher=University of Oxford, UK|access-date=13 July 2011}}

Education and career

Frederick Dudden was educated at Bath College and Pembroke College, Oxford. Dudden was Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Street, central London. He was Fellow, Lecturer in Theology and Chaplain of Lincoln College, Oxford (1898–1914). He was Canon of Gloucester (1918–37). At Oxford University, he was a member of Hebdomadal Council (1924–45) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1925–29 and 1932–49), before and after his time as Vice-Chancellor.

Pembroke College

At Pembroke College, he was the first Master to live in the Lodgings. The previous Master's House was converted into undergraduate accommodation in 1928. He was a friend of Lord Nuffield, which led to the endowment of the Pembroke Mastership. This freed subsequent Masters of Pembroke from the financial need to take the position of Canon at Gloucester Cathedral, which had been given to the college by Queen Anne in 1714. As a representative of Pembroke College he was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1921 to 1949.{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1955_September_V010_N009.pdf#page=3|title=Notes|publisher=The Abingdonian}}

Publications

Gregory the Great, his Place in History and Thought (2 vols), 1905
In Christ's Name, 1908
Christ and Christ's Religion, 1910
The Future Life, 1915
The Problem of Human Suffering and the War, 1916
The Heroic Dead and other Sermons, 1917
The Delayed Victory, 1918
The Dead and the Living, and other Sermons, 1920
The Life and Times of St Ambrose (2 vols), 1935
Henry Fielding: His Life, Works, and Times (2 vols), 1953

References

External links

[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp76526 Pictures] from the National Portrait Gallery (London)
[http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/author/Dudden,%20F%20Homes Books] from Alibris

{{succession box

| title=Master of Pembroke College, Oxford

| years=1918–1955

| before=Bishop John Mitchinson

| after= R. B. McCallum

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{{succession box

| title=Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

| years=1929–1932

| before=Francis William Pember

| after=Francis John Lys

}}