Charles Maude
Charles Bulmer Maude (29 April 1848 - 11 May 1927) was an Anglican priest in the last third of the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth.[1]
Maude was born in Chapel Allerton,[2] Potternewton, Leeds, son of Edmund Maude, of Middleton Lodge, Leeds.[2]
He was educated at Leeds Grammar School[2] and Exeter College, Oxford where he graduated Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in 1871 and Master (M.A.) in 1872.[2]
He was
He died on 11 May 1927,[7] aged 79.
St Cyprian's, Kimberley
Maude was one of four priests (the others being Fathers Borton, Balfour and Tobias) brought by Bishop
"The church floor is of mud and so is very dusty. It is a low building with an iron roof and when it rains we have to give up the service as we cannot be heard! But do not think we are badly off. We have a surpliced choir, 12 boys and 8 men, and a fully choral service. Every Sunday the church is crowded. It holds about 400. I hope we shall soon be able to build one more worthy of the worship of God. At present, too, we are without a school-house and are obliged to have both day and Sunday school in church."[10]
It was during Maude's incumbency that a church building was imported from England to be assembled in Kimberley. The foundation stone was laid in 1879 by Sir
Ill health soon forced him to resign, however, and he returned to England.
Maude Street in Kimberley is named after him.[12]
St Edward's, Leek
Maude served subsequently as Vicar of Leek in Staffordshire. The Maude Institute was built and presented for use by St Edward’s Church, Leek by parishioners, as a memento of Maude’s vicariate, in 1896.[13]
Shrewsbury
Maude moved in 1896 from Leek to Shrewsbury in Shropshire when he was appointed by the Bishop of Lichfield both Vicar of St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury and Archdeacon of Salop. During his incumbency at St Chad's the church was fitted with electric light and a new organ, and new parish schools were built. He resigned his incumbency in 1906 because of the weight of his other duty as Archdeacon (responsible for a territory of parishes then covering north east and east Shropshire).[14] He remained Archdeacon, while living at Swan Hill House, Shrewsbury,[2] until retiring in 1917.
He was during that period also Chaplain to the Shrewsbury Borough Corporation for some ten years;
Personal life
Maude married, at Bloemfontein Anglican Cathedral,[14] in January 1878, Geraldine, daughter of Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Sussex, England.[2] The couple had no children, she survived him.[14]
Retirement and death
Following his retirement as Archdeacon, he moved from Shrewsbury to
References
- ^ National Archives
- ^ a b c d e f g h Mate, C.H. (1907). Shropshire, Historical, Descriptive, Biographical: Part II, Biographical. Mate. p. 99.
- ^ The Morning Post (London, England), Tuesday, September 24, 1872; pg. 2; Issue 30825
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p964: London, Horace Cox, 1908
- Yorkshire Herald(York, England), Thursday, June 25, 1896; pg. 3; Issue 14057. British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900
- ^ ‘MAUDE, Ven. Charles Bulmer’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 11 Feb 2017
- ^ The Rev. C. B. Maude. The Times (London, England), Thursday, May 12, 1927; pg. 16; Issue 44579
- ^ Lewis, C & Edwards, G.E. 1934. Historical records of the Church of the Province of South Africa. London: SPCK, p. 420
- ^ Lewis, C & Edwards, G.E. 1934. Historical records of the Church of the Province of South Africa. London: SPCK, p 485
- ^ a b Lewis, C & Edwards, G.E. 1934. Historical records of the Church of the Province of South Africa. London: SPCK, p 485
- ^ Crisp, William. 1895. Some Account of the Diocese of Bloemfontein in the Province of South Africa from 1863 to 1894. Oxford: James Parker.
- ^ Braby's Street Map for Kimberley
- ^ Reference to Maude Institute building Archived June 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g "Archdeacon Maude, Popular Clergyman. Death at Ludlow, Former Vicar of St Chad's, Shrewsbury". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 13 May 1927. p. 7.
- ^ "Funeral of Archdeacon Maude". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 20 May 1927. p. 4.