Richard Dudley (miner)

Richard Dudley of Yanwath (1518–1593) was an English landowner involved in copper and silver mines in the north of England from 1570 onwards.

Thomas Dudley was a member of the Sutton-Dudley family, a younger son of Edmund Sutton and Maud or Matilda, daughter of Lord Clifford.

[1] In the 1550s Richard Dudley had a legal dispute with the courtier Elizabeth Hutton, who was "mother of the maids" to Mary I of England.

As treasurer for the mining district he received ore worked by Daniel Hechstetter's German miners.

From 1581 some technological improvements were trialled by Joachim Gans from Prague, who used methods outlined by Lazarus Ercker.

According to Edward Stanhope, Richard Dudley was captured at Easter 1599 at the house of "Mrs Damport in Lancashire", probably meaning Bramhall or another home of Dorothy Davenport.