Thomas Hudson (poet)

For other people named Thomas Hudson, see Thomas Hudson (disambiguation).

Thomas Hudson, (died in or before 1605) was a musician and poet from the north of England present at the Scottish court of King James VI at the end of the 16th century. Both he and his brother Robert Hudson were members of the Castalian Band, a group of court poets and musicians headed by the King in the 1580s and 1590s.

In 1584 Thomas Hudson translated Judith by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, an account of the biblical character written at the command of Jeanne III of Navarre.

References

• The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament by Russell A. Peck
• Historie of Judith, by Thomas Hudson, ed. James Craigie. Scottish Text Society, series 3, vol. 14. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1941. (A translation from Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, first published by Thomas Vatroullier, Edinburgh, 1584.)
• See Thomas Hudson, found in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28.