father had 'perished in the service of the commonwealth; they accordingly placed him for nautical instruction in the Samaritan, and gave 51. towards his outfit. [Asher's Henry Hudson the Navigator, edited, with an Introduction, for the Hakluyt Society, 1860, is an almost exhaustive account of all that is known of Hudson's career, and includes the earliest accounts of his voyages as published in England by Purchas in 1625, and in Holland by Hessel-Geritz in 1612-13, by Van Meteren in 1614, and by De Laet in 1625, as well as later notices. A few interesting facts concerning the last voyage and the mutiny have been supplied by W. J. Hardy (St. James's Gazette, 20 April 1887). In an Historical Inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, 1866, J. M. Read has attempted to trace Hudson's family, but in the absence of evidence he offers nothing beyond ingenious and probable conjecture. A full bibliography of the subject is given by Asher, p. 258.] J. K. L. HUDSON, HENRY (A. 1784-1800), mezzotint engraver, engraved a few good plates. Among the portraits engraved by him were Viscount Macartney and Lord Loughborough after Mather Brown, Sir William Hamilton after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Frances and Emma Hinchliffe, as Music,' after W. Peters, Admiral Roddam after L. F. Abbott, and others. Among other pictures which he engraved were Industry' and 'Idleness' after George Morland,' A Rescue from an Alligator' after J. Hoppner, David and Bathsheba' after Valerio Castelli, Belshazzar's Feast' after Rembrandt, &c. Some of his prints were published at 13 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, but one, a portrait of Andrew Wilkinson after W. Tate, was published at Petersham. 6 [Dodd's manuscript History of English Engravers (Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 33402); Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits.] L. C. HUDSON, SIR JAMES (1810-1885), diplomatist, son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby Hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire, by Anne, daughter of the first Marquis Townshend, was born in 1810, and educated at Rugby and Westminster, and in Paris and Rome. He was page to George III and William IV, and also assistant private secretary to the latter king, and gentleman usher to Queen Adelaide. He was the messenger who was sent to summon Peel home on the dismissal of Melbourne in 1834 (see Croker Papers, ii. 245; TORRENS, Life of Lord Melbourne, ii. 49). From Disraeli's description, The hurried Hudson rushed into the chambers of the Vatican,' he was nicknamed Hurry Hudson.' He then entered the diplomatic service, and was successively secretary of legation at Washington in 1838, at the Hague in 1843, and at Rio Janeiro in 1845. He was promoted to be envoy at Rio Janeiro in 1850. In 1851 he was appointed envoy to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but before proceeding to Florence was promoted to the legation at Turin, where he remained until 1863. He strongly sympathised with the cause of Italian unity and independence, and lent it great assistance. He received the order of the Bath in 1855, when the Sardinian troops arrived in the Crimea, and the Grand Cross of the Bath in 1863. His sympathy with the Italian patriots almost passed the limits of diplomatic discretion. He was summoned home in April 1859, ' and came,' says Lord Malmesbury, 'in a state of great alarm, fearing he might not be allowed to return to Turin as minister, and took leave of Cavour, saying it was doubtful whether he would see him again. The fact is that he is more Italian than the Italians themselves, and he lives almost entirely with the ultras of that cause. I had reason to complain of his silence, and quite understand how disagreeable to him it must have been to aid, however indirectly, in preventing a war which he thought would bring about his favourite object, namely, the unification of Italy' (Memoirs of an Ex-Minister, ii. 169). 'Times' said of him that he had disobeyed the instructions of two successive governments, and acted according to the wishes of the people of England. When the Italian kingdom was consolidated in 1860, Hudson found his expenses as minister fast increasing, and although Lord John Russell when at the foreign office raised his salary from 3,6007. to 4,0007., and in 1861 to 5,000l., he found it insufficient to cover his expenses. In 1863 Lord John offered him the embassy at Constantinople, but Hudson preferred to remain at Turin until he became entitled to his first-class pension later in the year. On his resignation Lord John Russell was unfairly charged with jobbery in removing him to make way for Henry Elliot, a relative of his own (cf. G. ELLIOT's pamphlet, Sir James Hudson and Earl Russell, London, 1886: WALPOLE, Lord John Russell, ii. 438). From 1863 until 1885 Sir James lived in retirement principally in Italy. He died at Strasburg on 20 Sept. 1885. The [Times, 23 Sept. 1885. For the controversy upon his retirement see Times, 15, 18, and 25 Aug. and 12 Sept. 1863.] J. A. H. HUDSON, JEFFERY (1619-1682), dwarf, was born at Oakham, Rutland, in 1619. His father was a butcher, who kept and baited bulls for George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham. Neither of his parents was Hudson 150 undersized. When he was nine years old plot (1679), and confined in the Gatehouse at Westminster. He did not die here, as Soort and others state, but was released. ́ In June 1680 and April 1681, 'Captain' Jeffery Hudson received respectively 50l. and 20%. from Charles II's secret service fund. He died in 1682. his father presented him at Barleigh-on-the- ture. In 1636 appeared a very small volume, writton in honour of Hudson, called The Nowe Your's Gift,' which had a euphuistic dedication to Hudson, and an engraved portrait of him by J. Droeshout; another edition appeared in 1638. When the Prince of Orange besieged Breda in 1687, Lithgow reports that the dwarf, Strenuous Jeffrey,' was in the prince's camp in company with the Earls of Warwick and Northampton, who were volunteers in the Dutch service. During the civil wars he is said to have been a captain of horse; it is certain that he followed the queen, as he was with her in the flight to Pendennis Castle in June 1614, and went with her to Paris. He was, says Fuller, though a dwarf, no dastard;'accordingly, when insulted by Crofts at Paris about 1619, he shot him dead with a pistol in a duel. Crofts had rashly armed himself with a squirt only. In consequence Hudson had to leave Paris, though Henrietta Maria seems to have saved him from the imprisonment which he is often stated to have undergone. But at sea he was captured by a Turkish rover, carried to Barbary, and sold as a slave. His miseries, according to his own account, made him grow taller. He managed to get back to England, probably before 1658, when Heath addressed some lines to him in his Clarastella.' After the Restoration Hudson lived quietly in the country for some years on a pension subscribed by the Duke of Buckingham and others; but coming up to London to push his fortunes at court he was, as a Roman catholic, suspected of complicity in the popish The accounts of his height vary, but acvending to his own statement, as made to Wright, the historian of Rutland, after reaching the age of seven, when he was eighteen inches high, he did not grow at all until he was thirty, when he shot up to three feet six or nine. Portraits of Hudson and Evans, a tall servant of Charles I, were carved in relief in the wall over Bullhead Court, Newgate Street, London, the stone probably once forming the sign of a shop. In addition to the engraving in the Newe Year's Gift,' which has been reproduced in Caulfield's Memoirs of Remarkable Persons, and in the Eccentrie Magazine, there is a painting of Hudson by Mytens at Hampton Court, a copy of which is at Holyrood. Another portrait by Mytens was in the possession of Sir Ralph Woodford; this was engraved by G. P. Harding for the Biographical Mirror.' He also appears in the portrait of Henrietta Maria by Vandyck at Petworth. Walpole mentions another portrait in his day, in possession of Lord Milton. Hudson's waistcoat, breeches, and stockings are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. [Fuller's Worthies, ed. Nichols, ii. 245; Gent. Mag. 1732, p. 1120; Fairholt's Remarkable and Eccentric Characters, p. 63; Wright's Rutland, ed. 1684, p. 105; The New Yeeres Gift; Lithgow's True . . . Discourse upon . . . this last siege of Breda, 1637, p. 45; Akerman's Moneys received and paid for secret services of Charles II and James II (Camd. Soc.). pp. 14, 28; Walpole's Anecd. of Painting, ed. Wornum, vol. ii.; Law's Cat. of Pictures at Hampton Court Palace, 263; Granger's Biogr. Hist. of England, ii. 404; Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England, v. 313, 327; Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak; Bromley's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, p. 160.] W. A. J. A. HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719), classical scholar, born at Widehope, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1662, was the son of James Hudson. In 1676 he entered Queen's College, Oxford, as a servitor, but was subsequently elected a tabarder. He graduated B.A. on 5 July 1681, and M.A. on 12 Feb. 1684. On 29 March 1686 he became fellow and tutor of University College. For the use of his pupils he privately printed a compilation from Bishop Beveridge's treatise, with the title 'Introductio ad Chronologiam; sive Ars Chronologica in epitomen redacta,' 8vo, and carried it about as a trophy. His body was buried at Denton, Northamptonshire. A proposal to reinter it at Uffington does not seem to have been carried out. Hudson married about 1630 Miss Pollard of Newnham Courtney, Oxfordshire. He lost by the rebellion the whole of his estates, and after his death his wife and children were supported by charity. His boldness, generosity, and almost fanatical loyalty are undoubted. Walker says he was a scholar and a plain and upright Christian. He wrote: 1. The Divine Right of Government Natural and Politique, more particularly of Monarchie, the onely legitimate and Natural source of Politique Government,' which was printed in 4to, 1647, a portrait of Charles I, by P. Stent, being prefixed. The book was written in the Tower. 2. An Account of King Charles I,' &c., Svo, which was not published till 1731 (by Hearne). [Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, ii. 269,367; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 233; Lloyd's Memoirs, p. 625; Whitelocke's Memorials, pp. 239, 306, 307; Hearne's Chronicon de Dunstable, vol. ii.; Cary's Memorials of the Civil Wars, i. 93, 109; Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, bk. ix.] A. C. B. HUDSON, ROBERT (A. 1600), poet, was probably a brother of Thomas Hudson (A. 1610) [q. v.], and was, like him, one of the 'violaris, or Chapel Royal musicians, of James VI. Hudson seems to have been a special friend of Alexander Montgomerie, author of the Cherrie and the Slae,' who addresses him in a group of sonnets, appealing for his interest at court, and at length declaring himself sadly disappointed in him as capable of merely courtier's courtesy. Montgomerie, in the course of his appeal, denominates Hudson the 'only brother of the Sisters nyne,' and predicts for him a secure immortality through his 'Homer's style' and his' Petrarks high invent.' Four sonnets by him alone survive. Of these one is commen datory of King James's Poems' (1584); another belauds the manuscript Triumphes of Petrarke' by William Fowler (printed in IRVING, Scotish Poetry, p. 463); the third is an epitaph on Sir Richard Maitland (PINKERTON, ii. 351); and a fourth is a commendatory sonnet on Sylvester's version of Du Bartas (HUNTER, Chorus Vatum, i. 411). [Pinkerton's Ancient Scotish Poems; Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24488, f. 411; Irving's Poems of Alexander Montgomery and Hist. of Scotish Poetry.] T. B. HUDSON, ROBERT (1731-1815), composer, born in 1731, possessed a good tenor voice, and in his youth sang at concerts in the Ranelagh and Marylebone Gardens. At the age of twenty-four he was elected assistant organist to St. Mildred's, Bread Street, and in the following year was appointed vicar-choral' of St. Paul's. In 1758 he was created a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in 1773 almorer and master of the children at St. Paul's. The latter post he held for twenty years. He was also for some time music-master at Christ's Hospital. In 1784 he took the degree of Mus.Bac. at Cambridge, from St. John's College. He died at Eton in December 1815, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His compositions include a cathedral service, several chants and hymn tunes, and a collection of songs, published in 1762, under the title of 'The Myrtle.' The hymn tune is assigned both to him and to his daughter Mary [q. v.] He also set for five voices the lines commencing 'Go, happy soul,' from Dr. Child's monument at Windsor. [Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 755; Brown's Biog. Dict. of Music, p. 335; Fétis's Biog. Univ. des Musiciens, iii. 380; Graduati Cantabrigienses, p. 249; James Love's Scottish Church Music (1891), p. 175.] R. F. S. HUDSON, THOMAS (A. 1610), poet, was probably a native of the north of England. His name stands first in the list of violaris' in the service of James VI in 1567 : 'Mekill [i. e. probably, big] Thomas Hudsone, Robert Hudsone [q. v., James Hudsone, William Hudsone, and William Fullartoun their servand.' The Hudsons in all likelihood were brothers. All their names reappear in "The Estait of the King's Hous' for 1584 and 1590, with particulars as to salary and liveries. Thomas Hudson was also installed master of the Chapel Royal 5 June 1586, his appointment being ratified by two acts of parliament dated respectively 1587 and 1592. Hudson's chief work is The Historie of Judith in forme of a Poeme: penned in French by the noble poet, G. Salust, Lord of Bartas: Englished by Tho. Hudson,' Edinburgh, 1584. The work was probably suggested by the king, to whom Hudson dedicates it, and who supplied a commendatory sonnet. It runs fluently, and the number of verses is limited to that of the original text. Hudson's version was reissued in London in 1608, with the later editions of Joshua Sylvester's 'Du Bartas,' and again in 1613, alone. Drummond of Hawthornden much preferred Sylvester's rendering to Hudson's. Hudson is one of the contributors to England's Parnassus,' 1600, and Ritson and Irving are agreed in identifying him with the 'T.H.' who contributed a 1708. To Ayliffe's Antient and present State of the University of Oxford, 1714, he contributed a notice of the Bodleian Library. Several letters from and to him are preserved in the Bodleian Library, where is also (Rawlinson MS. Misc. 350) his Indices Auctorum a variis Scriptoribus vel citatorum vel etiam laudatorum.' [Wood's Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 451-60; Hearne's Collections (Oxf. Hist. Soc.); Macray's Annals of Bodleian Library.] made one of the royal chaplains, and received the degree of D.D. in February 1642-3 (ib. iv. 55). His want of reserve and bluntness caused Charles I to nickname him his plaindealing chaplain. Hudson's known fidelity led to his appointment as scout-master to the army in the northern parts of England, then under the command of the Marquis of Newcastle, a position which he occupied till 1644. In April 1646, when Charles I determined to entrust his person to the Scots army, he chose Hudson and John Ashburnham (q. v.] HUDSON, MARY (d. 1801), organist, to conduct him to the camp at Newark-ondaughter of Robert Hudson q.v., was elected Trent. The parliament, on 23 May 1646, conorganist of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, sequently despatched a serjeant-at-arms for on 20 Dec. 1781, at a yearly salary of twenty- his arrest, but the Scots refused to give him five guineas, and held this post until her up (RUSHWORTH. vi. 271), and after a few death on 28 March 1801. During the last days confinement released him. Very shortly eight or nine years of her life she also ful-afterwards, while endeavouring to reach filled the duties of organist at the church of St. Gregory, Old Fish Street. G. G. She was the composer of several hymn tunes, and of a setting for five voices of a translation of the epitaph on Purcell's grave, stone, commencing Applaud so great guest!' The hymn tune Llandaff is signed both to her and to her father. [Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 755; Vestry Minutes of St. Olave's, Hart Street: James Love's Scottish Church Music (1891), p. 175.] France, he was arrested at Sandwich (7 June 1646) and was imprisoned in London House. On 18 June 1646 he was examined by a committee of parliament, when he detailed the wanderings of the king between Oxford and athe Scots camp. On 18 Nov. he escaped, and as-is said (WHITELOCKE, Memorials of English Affairs, p. 237) to have conveyed letters from the king to Major-general Laugharne in Wales. In the following January he was R. F. S. again captured at Hull and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he was not alHUDSON, MICHAEL, D.D. (1605-lowed to see any one except in the presence of 1648), royalist divine, was born in West- a keeper. Here he chiefly employed himself moreland (Reg. Matric. Oxon. fol. 876) in'in writing and in perfecting a project to de1605, and in February 1621-2 became a 'poor child' and subsequently tabarder of Queen's College, Oxford. He proceeded B.A. in February 1625, and M.A. in January 1628 (WOOD, Fasti Oron. ed. Bliss, iv. 422, 441). It seems doubtful if he be identical with the Michael Hudson who matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 3 July 1623. About 1630 he was elected a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, married, and was for a time tutor to Prince Charles. He was presented by Charles I to the rectory of West Deeping, Lincolnshire, 16 June 1632; to that of Witchling, Kent, 29 March 1633; and to the vicarage of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 10 Aug. 1633. He was also rector of Uffington, Lincolnshire, and of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, but seems to have assigned the former on 19 March 1640-1 to Thomas South in exchange for the rectory of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. Both South and Hudson were sequestrated from the living of Uffington by the Earl of Manchester 31 Dec. 1644. On the outbreak of the civil war Hudson had joined the royalists, and after the battle of Edgehill retired to Oxford, where he was brought into contact with the king, was liver the Tower into royalist hands, which he was unable to put into execution. He again escaped early in 1648 in disguise with a basket of apples on his head, and returning to Lincolnshire he raised a party of royalist horse and stirred up the gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk to more activity on the king's side. With the chief body of those who had taken arms under his command, Hudson retired to Woodcroft House, Northamptonshire, a strong building surrounded by a moat, where they were speedily attacked by a body of parliamentary soldiery. Hudson, who is believed to have borne a commission as a colonel, defended the house with great courage, and when the doors were forced, went with the remnant of his followers to the battlements, and only yielded on promise of quarter, which was afterwards refused. Hudson was flung over the battlements, but managed to support himself upon a spout or projecting stone until his hands were cut off, when he fell into the moat beneath. In reply to his request to be allowed to die on land, a man, named Egborough, knocked him on the head with a musket (6 June 1648), while another parliamentarian cut out his tongue and carried it about as a trophy. His body was buried at Denton, Northamptonshire. A proposal to reinter it at Uffington does not seem to have been carried out. Hudson married about 1630 Miss Pollard of Newnham Courtney, Oxfordshire. He lost by the rebellion the whole of his estates, and after his death his wife and children were supported by charity. His boldness, generosity, and almost fanatical loyalty are undoubted. Walker says he was a scholar and a plain and upright Christian. He wrote: 1. The Divine Right of Government Natural and Politique, more particularly of Monarchie, the onely legitimate and Natural source of Politique Government,' which was printed in 4to, 1647, a portrait of Charles I, by P. Stent, being prefixed. The book was written in the Tower. 2. An Account of King Charles I,' &c., 8vo, which was not published till 1731 (by Hearne). [Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, ii. 269, 367; Wood's Athenæ Oxon, ed. Bliss, iii. 233; Lloyd's Memoirs, p. 625; Whitelocke's Memorials, pp. 239, 306, 307; Hearne's Chronicon de Dunstable, vol. ii.; Cary's Memorials of the Civil Wars, i. 93, 109; Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, bk. ix.] A. C. B. HUDSON, ROBERT (A. 1600), poet, was probably a brother of Thomas Hudson (A. 1610) [q. v.], and was, like him, one of the 'violaris, or Chapel Royal musicians, of James VI. Hudson seems to have been a special friend of Alexander Montgomerie, author of the Cherrie and the Slae,' who addresses him in a group of sonnets, appealing for his interest at court, and at length declaring himself sadly disappointed in him as capable of merely courtier's courtesy. Montgomerie, in the course of his appeal, denominates Hudson the only brother of the Sisters nyne,' and predicts for him a secure immortality through his 'Homer's style' and his Petrarks high invent.' Four sonnets by him alone survive. Of these one is commen datory of King James's Poems (1584); another belands the manuscript Triumphes of Petrarke' by William Fowler (printed in IRVING, Scotish Poetry, p. 463); the third is an epitaph on Sir Richard Maitland (PINKERTON, ii. 351); and a fourth is a commendatory sonnet on Sylvester's version of Du Bartas (IIUNTER, Chorus Vatum, i. 411). the Ranelagh and Marylebone Gardens. At the age of twenty-four he was elected assistant organist to St. Mildred's, Bread Street, and in the following year was appointed vicar-choral' of St. Paul's. In 1758 he was created a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and in 1773 almorer and master of the children at St. Paul's. The latter post he held for twenty years. He was also for some time music-master at Christ's Hospital. In 1784 he took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge, from St. John's College. He died at Eton in December 1815, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His compositions include a cathedral service, several chants and hymn tunes, and a collection of songs, published in 1762, under the title of The Myrtle.' The hymn tune is assigned both to him and to his daughter Mary [q. v.] He also set for five voices the lines commencing Go, happy soul,' from Dr. Child's monument at Windsor. [Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 755; Brown's Biog. Dict. of Music, p. 335; Fétis's Biog. Univ. des Musiciens, iii. 380; Graduati Cantabrigienses, p. 249; James Love's Scottish Church Music (1891), p. 175.] R. F. S. HUDSON, THOMAS (A. 1610), poet, was probably a native of the north of England. His name stands first in the list of violaris' in the service of James VI in 1567: 'Mekill [i.e. probably, big] Thomas Hudsone, Robert Hudsone [q. v.], James Hudsone, William Hudsone, and William Fullartoun their servand.' The Hudsons in all likelihood were brothers. All their names reappear in "The Estait of the King's Hous' for 1584 and 1590, with particulars as to salary and liveries. Thomas Hudson was also installed master of the Chapel Royal 5 June 1586, his appointment being ratified by two acts of parliament dated respectively 1587 and 1592. Hudson's chief work is The Historie of Judith in forme of a Poeme: penned in French by the noble poet, G. Salust, Lord of Bartas: Englished by Tho. Hudson,' Edinburgh, 1584. The work was probably suggested by the king, to whom Hudson dedicates it, and who supplied a commendatory sonnet. It runs fluently, and the number of verses is limited to that of the original text. Hudson's version was reissued in London in 1608, with the later editions of Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas,' and again in 1613, alone. Drummond of Hawthornden much preferred Sylvester's T. B. rendering to Hudson's. Hudson is one of the HUDSON, ROBERT (1731-1815), com- contributors to England's Parnassus,' 1600, poser, born in 1731, possessed a good tenor and Ritson and Irving are agreed in identifyvoice, and in his youth sang at concerts in | ing him with the 'T.HI.' who contributed a [Pinkerton's Ancient Scotish Poems; Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24488, f. 411; Irving's Poems of Alexander Montgomery and Hist. of Scotish Poetry.] |