Author: Hudson, Thomas
Biography:
HUDSON, Thomas (1764-1817: findmypast.com)
He was not the fairly prolific poet of this name, a clergyman who published between 1751 and 1765 and died in 1784. This man produced only one known work, the Miscellaneous Poems printed in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, in 1788 and advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer at the time. MR commented on it only briefly, saying that it was not brilliant but at least was innocent. He was probably the son of Thomas Hudson baptised at Huddersfield on 20 Mar. 1744, the mother’s name not recorded. He may be the Thomas Hudson of Huddersfield who married Rebecca Wood at Bradford on 21 Sept. 1778 and had three daughters later baptised at Highfield by Huddersfield, the youngest in 1791. (Rebecca died in 1815 and was buried at St. Peter’s, Huddersfield, on 16 Jul.) But there was also a Thomas Hudson whose four children of other names died young (the mother’s name is not given) and who died at Huddersfield and was buried at St. Peter’s on 25 Oct. 1796. It is possible that he was the ironmonger of Huddersfield who advertised in the Leeds Intelligencer in 1792 offering to restore a stolen silver tankard to its owner for the cost of the advertisement. (findmypast.com 25 Dec. 2024; MR 79 [1788], 279; Leeds Intelligencer 15 Apr. 1788, 26 Nov. 1792)