# Edward Budge

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**Edward Budge** (1800–1865) was an English theologian, geologist, and general writer.

## Life

He was the son of John Budge, and was a native of [Devon](/source/Devon).[1] He was educated at [Saffron Walden](/source/Saffron_Walden), Essex, and was admitted at [Christ's College, Cambridge](/source/Christ's_College,_Cambridge), on 14 March 1820, when twenty years old.[2] In 1824 he took the degree of B.A., and in the same year was ordained [deacon](/source/Deacon) by the [bishop of Exeter](/source/Bishop_of_Exeter).[1] After holding several [curacies](/source/Curacies) in the west of England, he was instituted in 1839 to the small [living](/source/Benefice) of [Manaccan](/source/Manaccan), Cornwall, and remained there until 1846, when he was appointed by the bishop of Exeter to the more valuable rectory of [Bratton Clovelly](/source/Bratton_Clovelly), North Devon. He died at his rectory on 3 Aug. 1865, aged 65. At his death his family was left without any provision for their support. In the hope of raising some money for their necessities, the Rev. R. B. Kinsman, the vicar of [Tintagel](/source/Tintagel), published, in 1866, a collection of *Posthumous Gleanings* from Budge's study and from the essays which he had contributed to the *[Saturday Review](/source/Saturday_Review_(London))*.[1]

Budge was a learned theologian and a skilled geologist.[1] For [Edward Pusey](/source/Edward_Pusey)'s *[Library of the Fathers](/source/Library_of_the_Fathers)* he translated the *Homilies of [St. John Chrysostom](/source/St._John_Chrysostom) on the Statues*, and his scientific knowledge was shown in the numerous articles which he supplied to the [Royal Geological Society of Cornwall](/source/Royal_Geological_Society_of_Cornwall), and to the [Royal Institution of Cornwall](/source/Royal_Institution_of_Cornwall), on the [geology of the Lizard](/source/Geology_of_the_Lizard) district. To the Rev. H. A. Simcoe's periodical of *Light from the West* he furnished a series of articles setting forth the reflections of the *Christian Naturalist*, which was published in 1838 in a volume [bearing that title](https://archive.org/details/christiannatural00budguoft). A compilation from his pen *[The Mirror of History](https://books.google.com/books?id=lIeoz0UNNSUC)* was issued in 1851. He published many visitation and other sermons.[3]

## Notes

1. Courtney 1886, p. 229

1. Courtney 1886, p. 230.

## References

**Attribution**

- The entry cites: - *[The Gentleman's Magazine](/source/The_Gentleman's_Magazine)*, September 1865, p. 391, November 1865, p. 651 - Kinsman, Rev. R. B. (1866). "Life prefix". *[Saturday Review](/source/Saturday_Review_(London))* - Courtney, William Prideaux & Boase, George Clement (1874–1882). *Bibliotheca Cornubiensis*. Vol. 3 volumes. London. vol. i. 50, vol. ii. 651, vol. iii. 1076, 1100.

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