Pender Hodge Cudlip

Rev Pender Hodge Cudlip
Born	1835 Porthleven, Cornwall, U.K.
Died	1911 Sparkwell, Devon
Pen name	PH Cudlip
Occupation	Writer, clergyman, theologian
Nationality	British
Genre	Non-fiction, religion, theology
Spouse	Annie Hall Cudlip (1867–1911)
Children	Daisy, Ethel and Eric

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

References

1. 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. 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. 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