Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Budd, Henry
BUDD, HENRY (1774–1853), theologian, born at Newbury, Berkshire, 25 Sept. 1774, was the son of Richard Budd [q. v.] He was in residence at St. John's College, Cambridge, from October 1793 to June 1797, and graduated B.A. in 1798, and M.A. in 1801. After his ordination, 31 Dec. 1797, he became curate of Aldermaston, Berkshire, and was appointed chaplain of Bridewell Hospital, London, in 1801, which he resigned in 1831. He was instituted to the rectory of White Roothing, Essex, 18 March 1808. Budd, an active worker in all church matters, was one of the founders of the Prayer Book and Homily Society 21 May 1812, and for some time acted as the secretary, was connected with the Newfoundland Society for the Education of the Poor, the African Missions, and the Church Missionary Society. He died at White Roothing 27 June 1853, and was buried in the churchyard of that parish 4 July. He had been three times married, and left issue.
He was the author of: 1. ‘Infant Baptism, the means of National Regeneration, according to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Established Church. In nine Letters to a Friend,’ 1827, 3rd ed. 1841. 2. ‘The Present Controversy in the Bible Society briefly considered, in a Letter to a Friend,’ 1832. 3. ‘Helps for the Young, or Baptismal Regeneration according to the Services of the Established Church. In a series of twelve tracts,’ 1832–9, 2 vols. 4. ‘A Petition proposed to be presented respectively to the Three Estates of the Legislature on the subject of Church Reform, with an Address to the Ministers and Members of the Established Church,’ 1833. He warmly supported the Parker Society, instituted in 1841.
[A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Budd (1855); Christian Observer, lvi. 194–211 (1856).]