Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet

Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet (6 February 1897 – 29 November 1956) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Early life Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson was born on the 6 February 1897 to surgeon Leopold Hudson. He went to school at Eton before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served with the Guards machine-gun regiment from 1915 until 1920.

Political life Hudson was first elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington East, but lost the seat at the 1923 election. He returned to Parliament at the 1924 general election when he won the Hackney North seat from the Liberal Party MP John Harris. He held that seat until the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when he lost by a large margin to Labour's Henry Goodrich. Hudson was returned to the House of Commons at the 1950 general election for the new Lewisham North, representing the seat until his death. Hudson was chairman of Morgan Brothers (Publishers). Ltd., a governor of Westminster hospital and an honorary treasurer of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.

His widow, Margaret, was an early employer of Archibald Hall, a known serial murderer and thief.