Sir Mark Henry Hudson, KCVO (born 1947) is a British farmer, retired company director and former Chairman of the Council of the

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. Born into a family of

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farmers and trawlers in 1947, Hudson was educated at

Sedbergh School Sedbergh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the town of Sedbergh in Cumbria, in North West England. It comprises a junior school for children aged 4 to 13 and the main school for 13 to 18 year olds. It w ...

and studied agriculture at

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, and

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near London. He subsequently worked in

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and joined the board of the agricultural and distribution business

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in 1985; he was the company's chairman from 2006 until he retired in 2017."Mark Hudson appointed as Chairman of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster"
''Duchy of Lancaster'', 22 October 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2019. Hudson joined the Council of the

in 2006, and in 2015 succeeded Lord Shuttleworth as Chairman of the council. He served for two years, before retiring in 2017. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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in the

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.
The London Gazette
', 16 June 2017 (supplement 61962), p. B4.

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1947 births Living people People educated at Sedbergh School Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of London 21st-century British farmers Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Alumni of Wye College {{England-business-bio-stub