Background
Richard Mudge was the son of the teacher and cleric Zachariah Mudge (1694–1769), and his wife Mary Fox († c1762).
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Richard Mudge
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The third of five children, he was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1735, graduating Bachelor in 1738 and Master of Arts in 1741.
Career
Initially the private chaplain to Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey (later 3rd Earl of Aylesford), Mudge became curate of the villages of Great and Little Packington in 1741. Between 1745 and 1757 he was Rector at Little Packington, and from 1750 he was also Curate of Saint Bartholomew"s Chapel in Birmingham. After 1756 Lord Guernsey established Mudge in the independent living of Bedworth, where he lived until his death.
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English