Background
He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the eldest son of Robert Spencer Hudson.
He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the eldest son of Robert Spencer Hudson.
Hudson was educated at Street Matthew"s School and then Lawrence Sheriff School, where his interest in geology was started through a schoolmaster taking the students fossil hunting in the strata used for cement making.
Hudson left school in 1913 and became a student teacher at Elborow Boys" School. In World War I, he served in the Artists" Rifles and the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, becoming a 2nd Lieutenant (Acting Captain). In 1918 he went to, to read geology, graduating with first class honours in 1920.
Hudsons"s early career was academic, first at University College London, and then at the University of Leeds where he became Professor of Geology. In 1946 he joined the Iraq Petroleum Company and did extensive field trips to Kurdistan, British Mandate of Palestine, Iraq, and Oman. He retired from Iraq Petroleum Company in 1958, and became an Iveagh Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin in 1960.
He was appointed to the Chair of Geology and Mineralogy there in 1961.
In 1958 he was awarded the Murchison Medal by the Geological Society of London for "his significant contribution to the science by means of a substantial body of research." He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961. Between 1923 and 1966 over one hundred of his papers were published.
He died in his College rooms in Dublin.
Royal Society.
