Pender Hodge Cudlip Explained

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.^[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).

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

Notes and References

1. [George Clement Boase]
2. William Cushing, Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises, vol. 2, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1888, p. 208.
3. 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. Joseph Foster, ed. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, vol. 1, London: Joseph Foster, 1887, p. 324.
5. 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.
10. The Biograph and Review, Vol. V, London: E. W. Allen, 1881, pp. 271–273.
11. Book: Sutherland, John . John Sutherland (author) . Cudlip, Pender . http://archive.org/details/stanfordcompanio0000suth/page/165 . The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction . Stanford, California . Stanford University Press . 1989 . 165 . 0804715289 .
12. Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell and David Trotter. Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion. Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 86.