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Stephen Moulsdale
Stephen Moulsdale from The Stag.jpg
Moulsdale pictured in the Epiphany 1909 edition of college magazine The Stag
Principal of St Chad's College, Durham
In office
1904–1937
Preceded by Founded
Succeeded by John S. Brewis
Principal of St Chad's Hostel, Hooton Pagnell
In office
1904–1916
Preceded by Frederick Samuel Willoughby
Succeeded by Closed
Vice Chancellor & Warden of the University of Durham
In office
1934–1937
Preceded by William Sinclair Marris
Succeeded by Robert Bolam
Personal details
Born
Stephen Richard Platt Moulsdale

(1872-08-18)18 August 1872
County Sligo
Died 25 October 1944(1944-10-25) (aged 72)
Hintlesham
Nationality Irish
Spouse Mary Frisewide
Priest
Church Church of England
Diocese Diocese of Durham
Orders
Ordination 1896 (deacon)

Stephen Richard Platt Moulsdale (18 August 1872, County Sligo – 25 October 1944, Hintlesham) was an Irish Anglican priest and academic administrator.

Life and career

The eldest son of the Revd T. H. P. Moulsdale, an Anglo-Irish cleric who was the rector of Ballysumaghan, Stephen Moulsdale was educated initially in Sligo followed by St Aidan's Theological College in Birkenhead. He was ordained in 1896 and became a curate at St Chad's Church in Everton, Liverpool. Later continuing his studies at Durham University as a member of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, he was granted an MA in Divinity in 1903. Moulsdale married Mary Frideswide, the daughter of Aysgarth School headmaster the Rev. C. T. Hales, in 1908. She died in 1933.

In 1903 he was appointed vice-principal of St Chad's Hostel, Hooton Pagnell, and in 1904 was appointed principal. Also in 1904, he was instrumental in founding St Chad's Hall at Durham University as a sister institution to the hostel, becoming its first principal, which he held concurrently with the hostel principalship. The hostel closed in 1916, with all teaching concentrated at the Durham institution, which in 1918 was renamed St Chad's College.

He remained principal of St Chad's College until 1937, serving concurrently as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1934 to 1936.

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