Author: Dunderdale, Robert
Biography:
DUNDERDALE, Robert (1800-70: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 16 Oct. 1800 at Dunford House, Methley, near Leeds, and baptised on 28 Oct., the fourth of six children of David Dunderdale, a cloth manufacturer and part owner of Castleford Pottery, and his wife Anne Bramley, who had married at St. Peter’s Leeds on 18 June 1794. His father entered bankruptcy proceedings in 1798 which dragged on until 1807 when disposals of the warehouse and estate were forced by creditors. He was a pupil of the Rev. James Tate at the Free Grammar School, Richmond, Yorkshire, and from there proceeded to St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1820 (BA 1824, MA 1827). He entered the church and was appointed Perpetual Curate at Arkholme, Lancashire, on a small salary which he sought to supplement by teaching. He was later Perpetual Curate of Leck, near Kirby Lonsdale, from 1837 until his death in 1870. He never married and towards the end of his life his unmarried sister, Jane, may have kept house for him. In addition to the works listed here, he also published Poems on Viewing Part of the Lake Scenery (1847). He died at Cheapside, Lancaster, on 26 Jul. 1870, and was buried at St. John’s, Tunstall. He left a small estate of under £1000. (ancestry.co.uk 7 Nov. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 7 Nov. 2021; CCEd 7 Nov. 2021; Crockford’s Clerical Directory 1865; Leeds Intelligencer 23 Jun. 1794, 23 Feb. 1807, 11 May 1807; Lancaster Gazette 9 Dec. 1826, 30 Jul. 1870; Newsam 165-6) AA
Other Names:
- R. Dunderdale, M.A.
- the Rev. R. Dunderdale