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Charles Grave Hudson FRS (3 April 1730 – 24 October 1813) married well and became the owner of Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire. He was a director of the South Sea Company and became a High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1783. He became a baronet on 21 June 1791. ==Life== Hudson was born in Tunis in 1730 to Joseph Hudson, a Dutch consul, and Sarah (born Plowman). Charles was the second and last child and only son.〔(The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ), William Betham, Vol $, retrieved 28 June 2014〕 Hudson married Catherine Susanna Palmer and he and his wife inherited Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire as his wife was a co-heiress (and eldest of four daughters}. Their new home had been built in about 1750. Because of the hall, Hudson had to make payments to his wife's sisters to balance the inheritance from his father-in-law, Henry Palmer. Hudson extended and improved this imposing building that stood beside the River Soar.〔(Wanlip Hall ), European Magazine, 1803, p33, retrieved 1 July 2014〕 Together they had eight children〔 before Catherine died and Hudson married again. Hudson had interest in slave plantations in Surinam.〔(The Palmer family of Wanlip ), Leics.gov.uk, retrieved 6 July 2014〕 He was also a director of the South Sea Company. He became a High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1784〔Topographical History of the County of Leicester〕 and a baronet in 1791.〔 Hudson died in Wanlip in 1813. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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