DUDLEY, Tno ‘s ( 1:i7it- 11153 . The second i;overnor of Al•ssaellusetts, horn in Northampton, England. Ili. acted for a time as ft page to la rd Compton, later Earl of Northampton: seined as captain in the English Army during the French expedition of 1597: be came a .lerk to Judge Ni•hols about I598. and Iron) Hilt; to IiittO was employed as the steward of Theophiln- I'linton. the fourth Earl of Lincoln. In 14130 lie emigrated to the Alassa chu•etts Bay Colony, as Deputy Ito, timer \\ inthrop. and from this time until his death next to Winthrop, probably the most influen tial man in the Colony. Ile served thirteen yeal•S as 1)011111ly Was four times t;overnor of the Colony—in the years 1631. 1(140, In45, and 1650: was the chief founder of Newt OWII ( now Cambridge), :\lass.: took an active part in the founding of Harvard College. in 16313. and was t.‘% •letted President of the United colonies of New England. Ili' I iVed (
and 1:0X1ol•y, where \vas in many respects a typical Puritan, stern. un iebling. and int( nsely pious. and by many his tori ins ha: been charged with being peculiarly bigoted. and intolerant — trait: x‘hicli many find in his dealing, with Anne Ihitehinson. I: ,, ger Williams. and Sanincl Ilorton. II is latest biographer, however. strongly defends him on all these points. Dudley's (laughter Anne (Brad street the poet. married (Inv. Simon (q.v. . I'onsult : 'Flue painstaking hut somewhat biography by Jones. The Lijr aml Work of 1)vdlrrt, flee SreOpirl of IlaS 8.1ell11S1 Ls IS;99, and ])ease (editor), Tlo of Mr. 7'homas Dudley, sere ral finu.s (;ori floor of flu 14 n, is .supposed, him ('of ton Mather (Cam 1.ridee.