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]

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