Benjamin Dudley (Archdeacon of Rangiora)

Benjamin Woolley Dudley (b Dudley 1805 - d Rangiora 1892) in Auckland, New Zealand) was an eminent New Zealand Anglican priest in the Nineteenth century.

He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and held curacies at Earnley then Ticehurst. Emigrating to New Zealand he became the incumbent at Lyttelton. In 1876 he became Archdeacon of Rangiora, where he remained until his death on 28 August 1892.

His son, Benjamin Thornton Dudley, was Archdeacon of Waitemata, and later Auckland from 1883 to 1901.