William Porcher DuBose (April 11, 1836 – August 18, 1918) was an American priest, author, and theologian in the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Both sides of his family were descended from French Huguenots[5] who had immigrated as religious refugees in 1686 and settled in the Midlands of South Carolina.

DuBose grew up on the 2,500-acre (10 km2) family plantation near Winnsboro; his parents were planters and major slaveholders, owning 204 slaves in 1860.

[5] While at The Citadel, DuBose had his "conversion experience": I lept to my feet trembling, and then that happened that I can only describe by saying that a light shone about me and a Presence filled the room.

After he was ordained a deacon at Grace Church in Camden, South Carolina in December 1863, he joined Kershaw's Brigade as its chaplain in Greeneville, Tennessee.

(He had aligned with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America during the conflict, when his brother served as Attorney General of the Confederacy).

DuBose to serve as Chaplain of the newly established University of the South and Professor of the School of Moral Science and the Evidences of the Christian Religion.

"[12] While on leave from the military, on April 30, 1863, DuBose married Anne Barnwell Peronneau of Charleston, South Carolina.

[5]) In 1878 Dr. DuBose married Mrs. Louise Yerger, headmistress at Fairmount College for Young Ladies in Monteagle, Tennessee at a service held in the parlor of the school.

Upon his retirement from the faculty of the University, Dr. DuBose lived at Fairmount College and cared for the religious needs of the school and of the townspeople, riding horseback up to Gruetli, a distance of some twenty miles twice a month to perform services for the Swiss inhabitants in the area.

[3] It was during this period of his life, while caring for the little chapel in Monteagle and serving at Fairmount, that Dr. DuBose wrote some of his greatest literature.

[13] William Porcher DuBose was formerly honored with a Lesser Feast on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on August 18.

"[15] On June 27, 2024, the 81st General Convention confirmed DuBose’s removal from the calendar of the Episcopal Church by a nearly unanimous vote.