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.

Rev Pender Hodge Cudlip
Born1835
Porthleven, Cornwall, U.K.
Died1911
Sparkwell, Devon
Pen namePH Cudlip
OccupationWriter, clergyman, theologian
NationalityBritish
GenreNon-fiction, religion, theology
SpouseAnnie Hall Cudlip (1867–1911)
ChildrenDaisy, Ethel and Eric

Biography

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Pender Hodge Cudlip was born to William Edgecombe Cudlip in Porthleven near Helston, Cornwall in April 1835.[1] He attended the University of Oxford, matriculating on 25 April 1855 and receiving degrees from Magdalen Hall,[2] – his BA in 1858 and MA four years later.[3][4][5] While attending Oxford, Cudlip co-wrote an article, Music, with Tremenheere Johns and Pascoe Grenfell Hill for the Helston Grammar School Magazine.[1]

Cudlip was ordained a deacon in 1860, then a priest by the Bishop of Exeter in 1861.[5] His first clerical posting at Buckfastleigh, Devon, was followed by Modbury in 1861–1866. In 1867, while a curate in Yealmpton, also in Devon,[3] he met Annie Hall Thomas and the two were married on 10 July that year.[2][6][7][8][9] The couple had six children, of whom three survived to adulthood.[10] One of his daughters later married Major William Price Drury, a Royal Marine, who wrote some nautical novels at the end of the century.[11]

The Cudlips lived in Devon for most of their married lives, except for 1873–1884 spent in Paddington, London.[12] Thereafter Cudlip was vicar of Sparkwell for 25 years.[2][4] He also held the title of Rural Dean of Plympton.[5] 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).

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  • 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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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b c William Cushing, Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises, vol. 2, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1888, p. 208.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ a b Joseph Foster, ed. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, vol. 1, London: Joseph Foster, 1887, p. 324.
  5. ^ a b c A. W. Holland, ed. The Oxford & Cambridge Yearbook. London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, 1904, p. 147.
  6. ^ 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.)
  7. ^ Victor G. Plarr, Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, 15th ed., London: George Routledge & Sons, 1899, p. 261.
  8. ^ The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. XXVI. Akron, Ohio: The Werner Company, 1907, p. 330.
  9. ^ Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Anne Mullin Burnham, eds. A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900, Dublin: Four Courts, 2006, p. 1289. ISBN 1-85182-940-7
  10. ^ The Biograph and Review, Vol. V, London: E. W. Allen, 1881, pp. 271–273.
  11. ^ Sutherland, John (1989). "Cudlip, Pender". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 0804715289.
  12. ^ Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter. Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion. Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 86. ISBN 0-19-811760-4