Transcript

of

The Rev. Harry Tudor [Obituary]

by

J. Brooking-Rowe (Ed.)

Trans. Devon. Assoc. 1885, Vol XXXIX, (1907), p. 42.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1907 Axminster meeting. There is a memorial window in St Mary’s Church, Wolborough to Aurora, wife of the Rev Tudor, available at the Forbears, Newton Abbot website at: https://forebears.io/england/devon/wolborough/newton-abbot
Prebendary Tudor, as Rector of Lustleigh, is listed as a subscriber to the Rev Hingeston-Randolph’s 1892 translation of Bishop Stapledon’s Register. His name also appears as Hon Sec, Exeter Diocesan Church Building Association in Pollard’s Official (1894) Guide to Exeter. 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. Harry Tudor. Prebendary Tudor graduated in 1855 from Magdalene College, Cambridge; was ordained deacon in 1856 and priest in 1858 by Dr. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford; and was successively curate at Great Taw, Oxford, 1856-8, and Clewer 1858-65. In 1865 he was appointed rector of Wolborough with Newton Abbot, on the nomination of the Earl of Devon. The parish increased greatly during his incumbency of twenty-three years. He was also chaplain of the Newton Abbot Union, and for some years Rural Dean of Moreton. In 1885 he became Prebendary of Exeter. In 1888 Prebendary Tudor left Newton Abbot for the rectory of Lustleigh. In 1892 he was elected Proctor in Convocation for the clergy of the diocese, and in 1903 he was chosen Sub-Dean of the cathedral. In 1904 he decided to leave Lustleigh, and the remainder of his life was spent in Exeter. He died at his residence, in the Close, 20 July, 1907. He became a member of the Association in 1902.