Benjamin Dudley (Archdeacon of Rangiora)

Benjamin Woolley Dudley (b Dudley 1805 - d Rangiora 1892) in Auckland, New Zealand) was an eminent New Zealand Anglican priest in the Nineteenth century.[1]

He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and held curacies at Earnley then Ticehurst. Emigrating to New Zealand he became the incumbent at Lyttelton. In 1876[2] he became Archdeacon of Rangiora,[3] where he remained until his death on 28 August 1892.

His son, Benjamin Thornton Dudley, was Archdeacon of Waitemata, and later Auckland from 1883 to 1901.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Papers Past NZ Libs
  2. ↑ Anglican History
  3. ↑ "The Clergy List" 1864 p268
  4. ↑ Project Canterbury



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