Lieutenant-General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the ...

Sir John Hudson KCB (1833 – 8 June 1893) was a British officer in the

British Indian Army The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...

Military career

Educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, Hudson was commissioned into the 64th Regiment of Foot in 1853.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> He served as deputy assistant adjutant-general during the response to the

Indian Mutiny The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...

. He commanded six companies of the 28th Punjab Infantry in 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and later commanded the Indian contingent during the Second

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in 1885. He went on to be commander of the Rohilkhand brigade of the

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in 1886, the Quetta division of the Indian Army in 1888 and the Allahabad division of the

in 1889. He became Commander-in-Chief Bombay Army in April 1893 but was killed just two months later by a fall from his horse in June 1893.The India List and India Office List
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hudson, John 1833 births 1893 deaths British Indian Army generals North Staffordshire Regiment officers Punjab Regiment officers British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War British Army personnel of the Mahdist War Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath People educated at the Royal Naval School