Benjamin Woolley Dudley (1805 – 28 August 1892) was a New Zealand Anglican priest in the 19th century.
Dudley was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, in late 1805.[1] He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and ordained as a priest of the Church of England in 1838. He held curacies at Earnley, then Ticehurst. Emigrating to New Zealand on the Cressy,[2] he became the incumbent at Lyttelton. In 1876[3] he became Archdeacon of Rangiora,[4] where he remained until his death on 28 August 1892.
Dudley was one of the first purchasers of rural land in the Christchurch district, choosing rural section 40 near Lyttelton.[5] His son, Benjamin Thornton Dudley, was Archdeacon of Waitemata, and later Auckland from 1883 to 1901.[6]