W. H. Mudie

Rev. William Henry Mudie (1830 – 10 July 1903) was an Anglican priest and educator in Adelaide, South Australia.

Mudie was born at Chesterfield in Derbyshire where he married Mercy Anne Caterer (1831 – 25 August 1908) shortly before leaving for South Australia on the Coromandel, the couple arriving at Port Adelaide on 8 January 1855.

His father, the Rev G. D. Mudie, of Rochford, Essex and his wife Wedderburn Mudie (née Ainslie) also arrived in Adelaide in 1855. He worked as chaplain at the Yatala stockade, then as minister at the Salisbury Congregational Church.

His sister Marina (1839? – 16 March 1899), who also arrived in 1855, was married to Thomas Caterer, brother of his wife Mercy Anne. Thomas had arrived in Adelaide the previous year, and was established as a schoolteacher. She was a learned and accomplished woman, had been secretary to Elihu Burritt for some years, and worked closely with Thomas in teaching and school management.

His brother, Charles Mayelston Mudie JP. (c. 1833 – 7 August 1880) married Harriet Logie Foulis. He was a medical practitioner in Riverton from 1863 to 1866, Port Adelaide, then from 1867 to 1868, when he was declared insolvent. then Port Pirie.

Within a fortnight Mudie had opened a school at Magill. This school was subsequently held at the Glen Osmond Institute from 1861, at "Vansittarts", Beaumont then Tower House, Beaumont and "Urrbrae" (later the home of Peter Waite). Mercy Anne's brother Thomas taught for a time for Mudie; both he and his brother Frederick founded schools of some importance in the early history of South Australia.

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