UK Elections Info

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Born: 15 December 1886

Died: 2 February 1957

1st Viscount Hudson - 5 January 1952

Member of Privy Council - 1938

husband of Hannah Randolph

son of R W Hudson

Eton College

Magdalen College, Oxford

Farmer

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour	1931	1935
Minister of Pensions	1935	1936
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health	1936	1937
Parliamentary Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade	1937	April 1940
Minister of Shipping	April 1940	May 1940
Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries	May 1940	1945

6 December 1923	Whitehaven	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,029	47.04
29 October 1924	Whitehaven	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,149	52.83
30 May 1929	Whitehaven	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,382	41.31
27 October 1931	Southport	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,307	68.43
14 November 1935	Southport	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,652	72.20
5 July 1945	Southport	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,792	52.75
23 February 1950	Southport	Conservative & Unionist Party	29,766	56.31
25 October 1951	Southport	Conservative & Unionist Party	30,388	60.18
1951 Elevation of Rt Hon Robert Hudson to the Peerage - Viscount Hudson.