Pender Hodge Cudlip

Pender Hodge Cudlip (1835–1911) was an English Anglican High Church clergyman, theologian and writer. Born in Cornwall, he became well known as a preacher in Devon and spent most of his clerical life there. As the husband of writer Annie Hall Cudlip, ''née'' Thomas, he self-published a series of books on religion and theology between 1895 and 1905.

Biography

Pender Hodge Cudlip was born to William Edgecombe Cudlip in Porthleven near Helston, Cornwall in April 1835.George Clement Boase and William Prideaux Courtney, eds., ''Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: A Catalogue of the Writings, both Manuscript and Printed, of Cornishmen, and of Works Relating to the County of Cornwall, with Biographical Memoranda and Copious Literary References'', vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874, p. 100. He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating on 25 April 1855 and receiving degrees from Magdalen Hall,William Cushing, ''Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises'', vol. 2, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1888, p. 208. – his BA in 1858 and MA four years later.''Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1870: Being a Biographical and Statistical Book for Reference for Facts Relating to the Clergy and the Church''. 5th. ed. London: Horace Cox, 1870, p. 175.Joseph Foster, ed. ''Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886'', vol. 1, London: Joseph Foster, 1887, p. 324.A. W. Holland, ed. ''The Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook''. London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1904, p. 147. While attending Oxford, Cudlip co-wrote an article, ''Music'', with Tremenheere Johns and Pascoe Grenfell Hill for the '' Helston Grammar School Magazine''.

Cudlip was ordained a deacon in 1860, then a priest by the Bishop of Exeter in 1861. His first clerical posting at Buckfastleigh, Devon, was followed by Modbury in 1861–1866. In 1867, while a curate in Yealmpton, also in Devon, he met Annie Hall Thomas and the two were married on 10 July that year.Thomas Humphry Ward, ed., ''Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical Notices of Eminent Characters of Both Sexes'', 12th ed., London: George Routledge and Sons, 1887, p. 277.)Victor G. Plarr, ''Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries'', 15th ed., London: George Routledge & Sons, 1899, p. 261.Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Anne Mullin Burnham, eds. ''A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900'', Dublin: Four Courts, 2006, p. 1289. The couple had six children, of whom three survived to adulthood.''The Biograph and Review'', Vol. V, London: E. W. Allen, 1881, pp. 271–273. One of his daughters later married Major William Price Drury, a Royal Marine, who wrote some nautical novels at the end of the century.John Sutherland, ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990, p. 165.

The Cudlips lived in Devon for most of their married lives, except for 1873–1884 spent in Paddington, London.Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter. ''Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion''. Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 86. Thereafter Cudlip was vicar of Sparkwell for 25 years. He also held the title of Rural Dean of Plympton. Before his death in 1911, Cudlip published several books on religion, including ''Bible Worship or The Continuity of Sacrificial Worship'' (1895), ''Meditations On The Revelations Of The Resurrection'' (1896), ''Why I Should Be Confirmed?'' (1898) and ''The Eucharistic Glory Of The Incarnation'' (1904).

Bibliography

*''Bible Worship or, The Continuity of Sacrificial Worship'', 1895
*''Meditations On The Revelations Of The Resurrection'', 1896
*''Why I Should Be Confirmed?'', 1898
*''The Eucharistic Glory Of The Incarnation'', 1904

References

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1835 births
1911 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
English theologians
People of the Victorian era
People from Porthleven
Clergy from Devon
Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford