Edward Budge (1800–1865) was an English theologian, geologist, and general writer.

Life

He was the son of John Budge, and was a native of

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. He was educated at

Saffron Walden Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, north of Bishop's Stortford, south of Cambridge and north of London. It retains a rural appearance and some buildings of the medieval period. The population was 15, ...

, Essex, and was admitted at

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, on 14 March 1820, when twenty years old. In 1824 he took the degree of B.A., and in the same year was ordained

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by the

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. After holding several

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in the west of England, he was instituted in 1839 to the small

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Manaccan Manaccan (; kw, Manahan) is a civil parish and village on the Lizard peninsula in south Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is about five miles (8 km) south-southwest of Falmouth. The origin of the name Manaccan is probably derived ...

, Cornwall, and remained there until 1846, when he was appointed by the bishop of Exeter to the more valuable rectory of

Bratton Clovelly Bratton Clovelly is a village, parish and former manor in the west part of Devon, England. It is situated about south-west of Okehampton immediately north of the A30 road. The manor of Bratton Clovelly was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. T ...

, North Devon. He died at his rectory on 3 Aug. 1865, aged 65. At his death his family was left without any provision for their support. In the hope of raising some money for their necessities, the Rev. R. B. Kinsman, the vicar of

Tintagel Tintagel () or Trevena ( kw, Tre war Venydh, meaning ''Village on a Mountain'') is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England. The village and nearby Tintagel Castle are associated with the legends surroundin ...

, published, in 1866, a collection of ''Posthumous Gleanings'' from Budge's study and from the essays which he had contributed to the '' Saturday Review''. Budge was a learned theologian and a skilled geologist. For

Edward Pusey Edward Bouverie Pusey (; 22 August 180016 September 1882) was an English Anglican cleric, for more than fifty years Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was one of the leading figures in the Oxford Movement. Early years H ...

's ''

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'' he translated the ''Homilies of

St. John Chrysostom John Chrysostom (; gr, Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of ab ...

on the Statues'', and his scientific knowledge was shown in the numerous articles which he supplied to the

Royal Geological Society of Cornwall The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall is a geological society based in Penzance, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1814 to promote the study of the geology of Cornwall, and is the second oldest geological society in the world ...

, and to the

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, on the geology of the Lizard district. To the Rev. H. A. Simcoe's periodical of ''Light from the West'' he furnished a series of articles setting forth the reflections of the ''Christian Naturalist'', which was published in 1838 in a volum
bearing that title
A compilation from his pen
The Mirror of History
' was issued in 1851. He published many visitation and other sermons.

Notes

References

Attribution * The entry cites: ** ''

The Gentleman's Magazine ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French ''magazine'' ...

'', September 1865, p. 391, November 1865, p. 651 ** ** vol. i. 50, vol. ii. 651, vol. iii. 1076, 1100.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Budge, Edward 1800 births 1865 deaths People from Saffron Walden English geologists English theologians 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge