Background
He was born in Brighton to accountant William Read Hudson and Nellie Frances Marion Downe.
He was born in Brighton to accountant William Read Hudson and Nellie Frances Marion Downe.
From 1945 to 1947 he worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and from 1948 ran a dry cleaning business in Werribee. He had a farm at Bega from 1964 to 1970, after which he returned to Werribee. In 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Werribee.
His health declined from 1978 and he did not re-contest in 1979, dying at Werribee the following year.
A member of the Liberal Party, he was a Werribee Shire Councillor from 1961 to 1964 and from 1971 to 1978, serving as president from 1975 to 1976.