Patrick, one of five children of an army family, grew up in various parts of the UK, Germany and Israel and was educated at Ampleforth College.
After a gap year on VSO as a teacher in southern Tanzania he took up an Open Exhibition at Worcester College, Oxford where he read History. He stayed on at Oxford for a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Anthropology and was awarded a Research Studentship by the British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa. After archival research at Rhodes House and in the National Archives of Tanzania he spent two years with the Iramba of north-central Tanzania, studying their pre-colonial history, language, religion, culture and social arrangements. He then took up a post as Staff Historian at the British Institute, contributing to academic journals and conferences and teaching at the University of Nairobi.
After returning to the UK he moved to Exmoor, married and worked in farming and estate management, writing occasionally for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator and running a mobile disco. He returned to teaching, first as Head of History and a house-parent at an Independent boarding school in Kenya where he moved with his wife and three young children and then as Head of History and Head of Sixth Form at an Independent school in Somerset.
He started tutoring part-time during weekends and school holidays but since retiring from school teaching in 2015 he has become available during the school week as well. He lives with his wife in Queen Camel near Yeovil.
After a gap year on VSO as a teacher in southern Tanzania he took up an Open Exhibition at Worcester College, Oxford where he read History. He stayed on at Oxford for a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Anthropology and was awarded a Research Studentship by the British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa. After archival research at Rhodes House and in the National Archives of Tanzania he spent two years with the Iramba of north-central Tanzania, studying their pre-colonial history, language, religion, culture and social arrangements. He then took up a post as Staff Historian at the British Institute, contributing to academic journals and conferences and teaching at the University of Nairobi.
After returning to the UK he moved to Exmoor, married and worked in farming and estate management, writing occasionally for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator and running a mobile disco. He returned to teaching, first as Head of History and a house-parent at an Independent boarding school in Kenya where he moved with his wife and three young children and then as Head of History and Head of Sixth Form at an Independent school in Somerset.
He started tutoring part-time during weekends and school holidays but since retiring from school teaching in 2015 he has become available during the school week as well. He lives with his wife in Queen Camel near Yeovil.
Patrick Pender-Cudlip, tutor in Somerset and Dorset