Anthony Rudd (c.1549 – 1615) was a Welsh bishop.

Life

He graduated B.A. from

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in 1567, and M.A. in 1570. He became Dean of Gloucester in 1584, and Bishop of St. David's in 1594. In 1596 he preached a celebrated sermon before

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, in which he made extensive allusions to her approaching old age (she was 63 in 1596, and he made play of this as the

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, on his text “O teach us to number our days”) and physical signs of it.

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in his ''Church History of Britain'' claims that this sermon, and a later one in 1602, offended the Queen, one of his sources being Sir John Harrington's account. Anecdotally

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is supposed to have led Rudd on to preach plainly, and Rudd lost the succession as

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by so doing, but Whitgift survived Elizabeth in any case. He attended the

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of 1604; he was sympathetic to

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ism. He is buried in the church at

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, where his wife erected a “bedstead” tomb. Rudd had acquired adjacent property at

Aberglasney Aberglasney House and Gardens is a medieval house and gardens set in the River Towy, Tywi valley in the parish of Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, West Wales. It is owned and run by Aberglasney Restoration Trust, a Charitable organisation, regi ...

Works

The early English comedy Misogonus has been attributed to him, without complete certainty. It was acted at Trinity College between 1568 and 1574.Ian Ousby, ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1993), p. 635.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rudd, Anthony 1549 births 1615 deaths Bishops of St Davids Deans of Gloucester Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 16th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 17th-century Welsh Anglican bishops