After ordination, Dudley-Smith served as an honorary chaplain to Chavasse, as well as head of the Cambridge University Mission in Bermondsey, South London.[1] In 1955, he was appointed editorial secretary of the Evangelical Alliance and editor of the new Crusade magazine, created after Billy Graham's 1954 London mission.[2][1] Dudley-Smith also began serving with the Church Pastoral Aid Society, serving as assistant secretary from 1959, then as secretary until 1973.[1] He served as Archdeacon of Norwich from 1973 to 1981 and as Bishop of Thetford from 1981 to 1991.[1] He also served as president of the Evangelical Alliance from 1987 to 1992.[3] He was chairman of the governors of Monkton Combe School from 1992 to 1997.[4]
He married Arlette MacDonald in 1959. They were married for 48 years until her death in 2007; they had one son and two daughters.[1] His son, James, is also ordained in the Church of England, and currently serves as rector of St John's Church, Yeovil.[5]
Dudley-Smith has been part of what has been described as a British "hymn explosion" since World War II.[6]
^Dudley-Smith, Timothy (1997). "Lord, for the Years..."Evangelicals Now. Interviewed by Shirt, Esme. Archived from the original on 27 June 2008. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
^A Delightful Inheritance by P. LeRoy, Monkton Print, 2018.