Henry Philerin Hudson (1798 – 6 January 1889) was an Irish composer, folk song collector and scholar.
[1] At the age of 14, Hudson transcribed the music manuscripts of Irish language teacher and lexicographer Edward O'Reilly (1765–1830).
Many of the tunes he published were his own compositions but were presented as traditional melodies and given a false provenance to back them up.
Henry's brother William Elliott Hudson (1796–1853) was also a collector of Irish folk songs and a more prolific composer.
He also collaborated with Vincent Novello in an English version of Beethoven's Christ on the Mount of Olives (Christus am Ölberge), published in Boston in 1853.