DEATH OF REV. T. L TUDOR.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 5 April 1900, Page 2

DEATH OF REV. T. L TUDOR.

On Monday passed away, in his eighthieth jenr, at'his residence, near Wellington Road, Martou, the Rev. Thomas Lloyd Tudor, Vicar in succession of Motuekn, Pic-ton, and Wanganui, and before that domestic, chaplain to tbe gueat Bishop Sciv.yn, «t whoso instance be came out, in; the earlier days of the colony. Mr Tndor's experiences on landing somewhat,, out of condition, his people usau.!y are alter hay- * ing been cooped up on shipboard three or t four mouths, were certainly trying,- more especially as hs was somewhat- carefully dressed to meet the Bishop,' and oiie would imiigine, unique. He had iardly landed an hour before tie Bishop asked him to walk' with liim, in, the sweltering sun, some twenty '" miles or more there and back, that they might have a ta".k together. The pace was that of ath'.otes m training. On their way they cams to a ejerjj. The Bishop, undressing, observed casually, "Jf j'ou tie your clothes in a hunch and catty them on your head you won't get them wet." Ho further observed of that creak corning back, or of another, 'lint if tire tide was up they would ha\": to li.vim, but that tlifi distance wasn't far. He tio»n, like evoryono else who saw much of him, became fasclaated by the Bishop, and none the less for his strange experiences of his first dsys. He travelled about a' geoA deal with him, and was tlv;n handed over to Bishop Hobliouse, the first Bishop of Nelson, with whom lie mads an intimate friendship. His work then consisted foi Miifn years in travelling great distances, aiut being for tie most pai't >\n the sadJta, and raialy at jiis o\\% hfii^e, gping from cue run to anptber, He bad goqd horses, and kc-jit thsm we.l. Indeed, Major Morse told me that at one time h,e owned thf two b:st trotting horsefs in the Nelson Province. It ivas,rougii work, but he did.it well, and was much liked and respected. After hfiv.injj comparatively seltlid down in Picloix, he l;ecaine, after v short interval at John sonville, tlw now vitar tif Waiiganui. Puring (he car'.ler part pf l)is cavcer the church was enlarged and the Hundny fsehpol built. Aftenvords he suffered torn a sunstroke, which cripn'.od jiis enefnie.s, and which h« navpr quite got over, and for pome years b« has been* living in retirement, in the Hangitikei. He had considerable alirewdness, l'umour, and a careful tongue. He was v( ly ucnerous on small means, so that i><;6 pie thought he had large ones ; of a kind ■heart, (i gentlem;ui jn thought and feeling, ancl in unfailing courtesy ofnjannevs, and a true fl-ieiitj. He caino of both sides of good famfy, his fathei J B people being country .squirm i» Montgomeryshire, and his grandmother one of the Teehmeres, a family that have represented AVorccstershire in the House of Commons for the last 200 years. There are many sti'd nlive who uilf inins him, and his sons and daughters have many ",iiendi> in the Rangitikei and Wangnnui who will sympattiiße with their loss.—