:Anthony Rudd
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Anthony Rudd (c.1549 – 1615) was a Welsh bishop.
Life
He graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1567, and M.A. in 1570.{{acad|id=RT562A|name=Rudd, Anthony}}
He became Dean of Gloucester in 1584, and Bishop of St. David's in 1594. In 1596 he preached a celebrated sermon before Elizabeth I at Richmond Palace, in which he made extensive allusions to her approaching old age (she was 63 in 1596, and he made play of this as the astrology, on his text “O teach us to number our days”) and physical signs of it. Thomas Fuller 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 John Whitgift is supposed to have led Rudd on to preach plainly, and Rudd lost the succession as Archbishop of Canterbury by so doing, but Whitgift survived Elizabeth in any case.James Doelman, King James I and the Religious Culture of England (2000), note p. 158.Thomas Fuller, The church history of Britain, from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year MDCXLVIII (1842 edition) vol. 3, p. 263, [https://archive.org/details/churchhistoryofb184203full online text]
He attended the Hampton Court Conference of 1604; he was sympathetic to Puritanism.Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640 (2002), p. 21.
File:Tomb of Bishop Anthony Rudd, St Cathen's Church, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Wales 01.jpg
He is buried in the church at Llangathen, where his wife erected a “bedstead” tomb.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aberglasney.org/index.php?page=history_the_rudds |title=History of the Rudd Family in Wales (1600's) - Aberglasney Gardens, UK |access-date=2009-02-01 |archive-date=2007-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112132700/http://www.aberglasney.org/index.php?page=history_the_rudds |url-status=dead }} Rudd had acquired adjacent property at Aberglasney.{{cite web|url=http://www.acadat.com/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area192.htm |title=Archaeology in Wales - Ymddiriedolaeth Archaeolegol Dyfed - Dyfed Archaeological Trust |accessdate=2009-02-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907195155/http://www.acadat.com/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area192.htm |archivedate=2008-09-07 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/local_history/pages/aberglasney.shtml |title=BBC - South West Wales Local History - Aberglasney's Georgian Mansion |access-date=2009-02-01 |archive-date=2011-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001001003/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/sites/local_history/pages/aberglasney.shtml |url-status=dead }}
Works
The early English comedy Misogonus has been attributed to him, without complete certainty. It was acted at Trinity College between 1568 and 1574.Lester E. Barber, Misogonus (1979)Ian Ousby, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1993), p. 635.
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Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge