Richard Hudson (New Zealand politician)

Richard Phineas Hudson (1860 – 2 May 1953) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Born in Ireland, he was a tea planter in British Ceylon before becoming a fruit grower in New Zealand.

He received his education at Wills Grammar School, at Fermoy College, and at Crawford's Military Academy.

He then lived in Ceylon for 23 years, where he had tea and coffee plantations,[1] and where he was chairman of the Haputale Planters' Association.

[8] Their son, Corporal Thomas Henry Hudson, died on 18 May 1916 while on active service in a British army hospital of pneumonia and heart failure.