Clifford William Dugmore (9 May 1909 – 25 October 1990) was a British ecclesiastical historian who contributed to the development of the study of church history in Britain.
[1] He was the son of a parson and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied the Hebrew language.
[1][2] In 1937 Dugmore was assistant curate of Holy Trinity, Formby, in the diocese of Liverpool and sub-warden of St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden.
[3] The following year Lord Shrewsbury made Dugmore his private chaplain and gave him the rectory of Ingestre-with-Tixall in the diocese of Lichfield.
[5] In January 1945 he was made rector of Bredfield-with-Boulge in Suffolk,[6] and in October he was appointed director of religious education for the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.