Dorothy Clutterbuck (January 19, 1880–January 12, 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939. She has therefore become a figure of some significance in the history of Wicca.
Clutterbuck was a practising Anglican Christian, and never publicly identified herself as a witch. Researchers have debated w...
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Dorothy Clutterbuck (January 19, 1880–January 12, 1951), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939. She has therefore become a figure of some significance in the history of Wicca.
Clutterbuck was a practising Anglican Christian, and never publicly identified herself as a witch. Researchers have debated whether the surviving evidence of her own writings indicates that she had unconventional religious leanings.
Clutterbuck was born in British India, and was the daughter of Thomas St. Quentin Clutterbuck, a British army officer. After her father's retirement, she appears to have moved back to England and to have lived with him in the Christchurch area of the New Forest in southern England. After her father's death, she continued to live in the same house alone, but at the age of 55 she married Rupert Fordham, a local Justice of the Peace who was...
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