Edward John Rudge

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Edward John Rudge''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|DL|FRS|FSA}} (30 May 1792 – 29 January 1861) was a British barrister and antiquary.

Rudge was the son of Edward Rudge, botanist and antiquary, and Anne Rudge, botanical illustrator. He was educated in Chiswick and at Westminster School, and was admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1811, graduating B.A. in 1815 (M.A. 1818). He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1815, and was called to the bar in 1819. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1834, and of the Royal Society in 1847.<ref>{{acad|id=RG811EJ|name=Rudge, Edward John}}</ref>

He was the author of ''Some Account of the History and Antiquities of Evesham'' (1820) on the town of Evesham, and the ''Illustrated and Historical Account of Buckden Palace'' (1839).<ref name=DNB00>{{cite DNB|wstitle =Rudge, Edward|first =Bernard Barham |last =Woodward |authorlink =Bernard Barham Woodward|volume = 49|quote=''sources:'' [Burke's ''Landed Gentry''; ''Proc. Linn. Soc.'' i. 315, 337; ''Gent. Mag.'' 1846 ii. 652, and 1817 i. 181; Britten and Boulger's ''English Botanists''; Royal Soc. Cat.; Brit. Mus. Cat.] }}</ref>

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== External links == * [http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/RUD001 Short biography] at University of Toronto libraries

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