Painter mainly of portraits in oil; textile designer. Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, T C Dugdale studied at Manchester School of Art, Royal College of Art, the City and Guilds School in Kennington, then at the Académie Julian and Atelier Colarossi, Paris. From early in the century he showed with the NEAC and RA, being elected RA in 1943. Having served in the Army during World War I, he held an exhibition in 1919 at the Leicester Galleries of pictures of the Middle East.