Transcript

of

Rev. Samuel Rundle. [Obituary]

Trans. Devon. Assoc. vol. XXXVIII, (1906), p. 34.

by

J. Brooking-Rowe (Ed.).

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1906 Lynton meeting. The Rev Rundle is recorded as Rector of Stockleigh Pomeroy in White’s 1878 Directory. At that time the rectory was valued in the King's Book. at £15. 6s. 8d, and was in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor,  It had “a good residence, with tasteful grounds”. The glebe (the land that was part of a clergyman's benefice and providing income) at that time was 46 acres with tithes commuted in 1841 for £180. There was also a small parochial school. More information may be accessed at the Devon Heritage website. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

The Rev. Samuel Rundle. The Rev. Samuel Bundle was the son of the Rev. Samuel Bundle, M.A., who at the time of his death was Rector of Stockleigh Pomeroy. The son was born in 1849, educated at a private school at Stoke, Devonport, and proceeding to Oxford, graduated at St Edmund's Hall, and took his degrees, B.A. in 1873 and M.A. in 1876. He was ordained deacon in the diocese of Exeter and priest in 1875. He was curate of Ladock, Cornwall, his only curacy, and in 1879 he was appointed to the living of Godolphin. He did good work in his parish, and was much beloved by his congregation and held in high esteem by his neighbours and by all who knew him. He was a good antiquary and genealogist, and frequently was a well-known figure at our meetings, and at those of the Penzance Antiquarian and Natural History Society and of the Royal Institution of Cornwall. To the publications of the two latter he was a contributor, but his interest being mainly confined to the county in which he lived, he wrote nothing for our Transactions. He left uncompleted a history of his parish, and of the house and family of Godolphin. He had been ill for some little time, and it became necessary that he should undergo an operation: from the effects of this he did not recover, and in spite of careful nursing and every attention at a Nursing Home in London, he passed away on 6 April, 1906.