Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson

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Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson , CH , PC (* 15. August 1886 , † 2. February 1957 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party and Peer .

Life

Hudson, son of the soap manufacturer Robert William Hudson and his wife Gerda Frances Marion bushel Johnson, attended the prestigious Eton College and graduated from the Magdalen College of the University of Oxford . In the elections of 24 October 1924 , he was for the Conservative Party for the first time a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) and represented in this until May 30, 1929 the constituency Whitehaven . In the election of October 27, 1931 , he was re-elected for the Conservative Tories as a member of the House of Commons, in which he now represented the constituency of Southport until January 5, 1952 .

In the first national government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald he held the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labor from October 28, 1931 to June 7, 1935 . Subsequently, he was in the second national government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin between June 18, 1935 and July 30, 1936, initially Minister of Pensions and then from July 30, 1936 to May 28, 1937 Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Health (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health) . He was then in the third national government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on May 28, 1937 Secretary of State for Overseas Trade (Secretary for Overseas Trade) in the Department of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) and held this office until April 3, 1940 in the Chamberlain War Government . On February 24, 1938, he also became a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He then succeeded Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet as Minister of Shipping on April 3, 1940 , and was Cabinet Minister until the end of Chamberlain's tenure on May 10, 1940. In the war government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took over the office of Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries on May 10, 1940 . He also held this ministerial office in Churchill's interim government between May 23 and July 26, 1945. On January 1, 1944, he was also awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor (CH).

After retiring from the House Hudson was on January 5, 1952 as Viscount Hudson , of Pewsey in the County of Wilts, in the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and belonged until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) as a member.

His marriage to Hannah Randolph on December 1, 1918 resulted in his only son Robert William Hudson , who inherited the Viscount title on his death.

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Hudson
1952-1957 		Robert Hudson
personal data
SURNAME Hudson, Robert, 1st Viscount Hudson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hudson, Robert Spear, 1st Viscount Hudson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1886
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1957