Hymn sheet used for the occasion of the funeral of the late Charles Edward Rudge, 18th December 1909: "O worship the King" and "On the Resurrection morning".
The Rudge family owned land in Evesham from the 16th century. Although the hymn sheet gives the name as Charles Edward Rudge, his name was actually Edward Charles Rudge (this was the name he was given at baptism and the name registered when he married and died). He was born in London in 1828 and died at Evesham in 1909. From the 1860s, he lived at Abbey Manor House, Evesham, which his grandfather, Edward Rudge (1763-1846), an archaeologist and botanist, had built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic Revival style in 1817. Mr J P Bayliss, who donated the item, had Bayliss and Jones forebears who lived in Badsey. Rudge does not appear to be related to his family, but he believes the hymn sheet was kept because it related to a local dignitary.