Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet

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

Constituencies

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

In Ramsay MacDonald's National Government 1931–1935 he was a Lord of the Treasury (i.e., a government whip), and in the second National Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1935 to 1939, and then Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1939 to 1940. He was reappointed to the Admiralty in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition, but he left the government in March 1942. He returned to office briefly in 1945, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in Churchill's 1945 caretaker government which held office from May to July that year.^{[citation needed]}

Hudson was made a baronet in July 1942, of North Hackney, in the County of Middlesex.^[1]

His widow, Margaret, was an early employer of Archibald Hall, a known serial murderer and thief.^[2]^{[page needed]}

^ "No. 35632". The London Gazette. 14 July 1942. p. 3101.
^ Pender, Paul (2012). The Butler Did It: My True and Terrifying Encounters with a Serial Killer. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 978-17-80575-61-2.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alfred Raper	Member of Parliament for Islington East 1922 – 1923	Succeeded by Arthur Comyns Carr
Preceded by John Harris	Member of Parliament for Hackney North 1924 – 1945	Succeeded by Henry Edwin Goodrich
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Lewisham North 1950 – 1956	Succeeded by Niall MacDermot
Political offices
Vacant Title last held by Cuthbert Headlam, to 1934	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1935–1939	Succeeded by Robert Bernays
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet of North Hackney, Middlesex 1942–1956	Extinct