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Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet (6 February 1897 – 29 November 1956) was a
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politician in the
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.


Constituencies

Hudson was first elected at the 1922 general election as
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(MP) for
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, but lost the seat at the 1923 election. He returned to
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at the 1924 general election when he won the Hackney North seat from the
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MP John Harris. He held that seat until the
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landslide at the 1945 general election, when he lost by a large margin to Labour's Henry Goodrich. Hudson was returned to the
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at the 1950 general election for the new Lewisham North.


Government offices

In
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's National Government 1931–1935 he was a
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(i.e., a government
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), and in the second National Government he was
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from 1935 to 1939, and then
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from 1939 to 1940. He was reappointed to the Admiralty in
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's war-time coalition, but he left the government in March 1942. He returned to office briefly in 1945, as Parliamentary Secretary to the
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in Churchill's 1945
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which held office from May to July that year.


Personal

Hudson was made a
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in July 1942, of North Hackney, in the
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. His widow, Margaret, was an early employer of
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, a known serial murderer and thief.


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