Dudley: Meaning and Definition of

Dud•ley

1. 1532?–88, British statesman and favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
2. 1576–1653, English governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1634–35, 1640–41, 1645–46, 1650–51.
3. a borough in West Midlands, central England, near Birmingham. 300,700.
4. a male given name: from an Old English placename meaning “dry field.”