Tony Dumper
Anthony Charles Dumper was the suffragan Bishop of Dudley from 1977 until 1993 and the first area bishop under the Worcester diocese area scheme from 1993.Early life and education
Dumper was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. As a pacifist, he was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, working on the land.He was made deacon on St Matthew's Day 1947 and ordained priest the Michaelmas following — both times by Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral, and began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy in Greenwich. He went overseas to be Vicar of Perak and then Archdeacon of North Malaysia. From 1970 to 1977, having returned to England, he was vicar of St Peter's Church, Stockton-on-Tees and rural dean of Stockton-on-Tees. He was appointed to the Episcopate as the Bishop of Dudley, serving from 1977 to his retirement in 1993. He was consecrated a bishop on 31 March 1977, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey.
In retirement, he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Birmingham.A keen gardener, Dumper was married with two sons and one daughter.
Tony Dumper died on 27 August 2012, age 88, at his home in Bristol.
