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.

He was 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, which he represented until his death in 1956, aged 59.

In Ramsay MacDonald's National Government 1931-1935 he was a Lord of the Treasury (government whip, and in the second National Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1935 to 1939, and then Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1939 to 1940. He was reappointed to the Admiralty in Winston Churchill's war-time Coalition Government, and left the government in March 1942. He returned to office briefly in 1945, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel, Light and Power in the Caretaker Government 1945 which held office from May to July that year.

He was made a baronet in July 1942, of North Hackney, in the County of Middlesex.

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Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Alfred Baldwin Raper	Member of Parliament for Islington East 1922–1923	Succeeded by Arthur Comyns-Carr
Preceded by John Harris	Member of Parliament for Hackney North 1924–1945	Succeeded by Henry Edwin Goodrich
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Lewisham North 1950–1956	Succeeded by Niall MacDermot
Political offices
Preceded by (office vacant) previous holder Cuthbert Headlam, to 1934	Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1935–1939	Succeeded by Robert Bernays
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baronet of North Hackney, Middlesex 1942–1956	Succeeded by (extinct)