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pointetl governor in 1(534 ami again in 11)40, 1045 ami \6'>0. When not serving as governor he was generally tleputy-governor or assistant, hoUling the former olVire thirteen ami the latter live years. In Marc-li, 1(>44, lie was ai)pointeil sergeant major-general of the colony, anJ served as sueli for four yeai-s. In 1639 he purcliased land in Koxhury and there resided until liis deatli. His Jirst wife, Dorothy, died in 1043 and in 1644 he was married to Mrs. Catherine (Digliton) Hack- luirn.'. 11.' di,-d in lloxlniry,:\Iass., July 31, 1G53. DUDLEY, Thomas Haines, c-on.sul, was born in Camden. N.J.. Uet.!», l^Sli); son of Evan and Ann (Haines) Dudley; grandson of Tliomas and Martha (Evans) Dudley; and great-gi-andson of Francis and Ivixchel (Wilkins) Dudley, who emi- grated from the parish of St. Peter, Wolverhamp- ton, Staffordshire, England, about 1730, and settled in New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar and practised in his native place. In 1846 he was married to Emmaline. daughter of Seth Mat- tack of Camden. In 1800 he was a delegate from the state at large to the Republican national con- vention. In 1861, while abroad, lie was appointed by President Lincoln U.S. consul at Paris to fill a temporary' vacancy. Later in the same j'ear he -was appointed U.S. consul to Liverpool and held the office, 1861-72. In 1872 he was apjwinted a.ssistant attomey-.general of the United States to settle certain claims again.st the British govern- ment. After his return to the United States he resumed the practice of his profession. He was elected a member of the Historical society of Pennsylvania in 1886, and was a member of the council in the American philosophical society in 1887, 1890 and 1893. See Biographical Sketch by William John Potts (1895). He died at Cam- d.-n, X.J., April 15. 1893.

DUDLEY, Thomas Underwood, second bishop of Kentucky and 110th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born in Richmond, Va., Sept. 26, 1837; son of Thomas Underwood and Maria (Friend) Dudley. His father was a prominent mer- chant of Richmond and his motiier was the daugliter of Wil- liam Friend of CJies- terfield county, Va. He was graduated at the University of Vir- ginia in 1858, re- ceiving his master's degree. He was as- sistant professor of the Latin language at the University of Virginia, 1860-61, and on the secession of Virginia in the latter year lie volun-

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teered in the service of the Confederacy and was assigned to the commissary department at Richmond. He was promoted to the rank of major and given a permanent position which he held during the war. He then took a course in theology at the seminary of Virginia, at Alexan- dria, and was ordained a deacon by Bishop Johns, June 28, 1867. He was rector of Emmanuel church, Rockingham parish, Harrisonburg, Va., 1867-68, and was admitted to the jiriesthood, June 26, 1868, receiving ordination at the hands of Bishop Whittle. He was assistant rector of Christ church, Baltimore, Md., 1868-69, and rector, 1869-75. He was elected assistant bishop of Kentucky in 1874 and was consecrated Jan. 27, 1875, in Christ church, by Bi.shops Smith, Johns, Stevens, Pinckney and Hellmuth of Huron. He served as coadjutor to Bishoi) Smith and May 31, 1884, became bishop of the diocese of Ken- tucky on the death of that prelate. During his episcopate he established various benevolent in- stitutions including the John N. Norton memo- rial infirmary; the Church home for females and infirmary for the sick; Home of the innocents; Trinity Hall diocesan high school for boys; and Woman's auxiliary, diocesan branch. He intro- duced deaconesses and the diaconal comnuinity of St. Martha. He also established and main- tained a diocesan paper. He was chosen as chair- man of the commission for church Mork among the colored people by the General convention and his zeal greatly progressed the work of the church and endeared him to that class tliroiigh the entire south. He was chancellor of the Uni- versity of the South, president of the board of trustees, and chairman of the executive com- mittee from 1893. He was appointed general sec- retary of the Domestic and foreign missionary society of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States in January, 1898, to succeed the Rev. Dr. William S. Langford, deceased, but declined the position. He received the degree of D.D. from St. John's college, Md., in 1874, and from the University of the South in 1883; that of LL.D. from Griswold, Iowa, in 1887, and that of D.C.L. from King's college, University of Wind- sor, N.S., in 1885. His published writings in- clude: A Sunday School Questiou Book on the Christian Year (1872); A Wise Discrimination, the Church's Need, Being the Bohlon Lectures for 1S81 (1881); Address on the Historic Christ and Beasons Why I Am a Churchman.

DUDLEY, William Henry, physician, was born in Roscrea, Tipjierary, Ireland, Oct. 7, 1811. He was graduated from the Royal college of sur- geons at Dublin in 1833, and in the following year became a fellow of King's college of ])hysicians and surgeons at Kingston, Jamaica, W.I., being at the same time health officer of Port Maria.