{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Thomas Rudge''' (baptised 1753 – 1825) was an English churchman, topographer and antiquarian, Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1814, and chancellor of the diocese of Hereford from 1817.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=24252|title=Rudge, Thomas|first=Nicholas|last=Herbert}}</ref>
==Life== The son of Thomas Rudge of Gloucester, Thomas Rudge the younger entered Merton College, Oxford, on 7 April 1770 at aged 16. He graduated with a B.A. degree in 1780. St. Rudge received a master's degree from Worcester College, Oxford in 1783 and a B.D. in 1784.
Rudge was appointed rector of St. Michael's Church and St. Mary-de-Grace Church, Gloucester. With the support of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, Rudge became vicar of Haresfield, Gloucestershire.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Rudge, Thomas|volume=49}}</ref>
In 1814, Rudge was appointed archdeacon of Gloucester. In 1817, he was made chancellor of the diocese of Hereford.
Rudge died in 1825.<ref name="DNB"/>
==Works== Rudge published:<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="DNB"/>
* ''The History of the County of Gloucester, compressed and brought down to the year 1803'', 2 vols., Gloucester, 1803. * ''A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester'', 1807. * ''The history and antiquities of Gloucester, from the earliest period to the present time: &c.'', 1811.
==See also== *Samuel Rudder
==Notes== {{reflist}} '''Attribution'''<!--Please do not reformat, for the sake of those using screen-readers--> {{DNB|wstitle=Rudge, Thomas|volume=49}}
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