Robert Hudson (FRS)

[1] He was the son of Captain Robert Hudson of the British East India Company and his wife Demetria Cotton, born in Camberwell.

[3][5] Robert Hudson senior had a share in the Inglis merchantman, launched 1811 at Penang.

[8] She was in service with the East India Company fleet to 1834, when she was bought out by Richardson Borradaile, trading with China.

[4] In 1873 Hudson donated geological specimens and fossils to King's College, London.

[19][20] Hudson lived on Clapham Common for over half a century, and was a justice of the peace in Surrey.

Hudson consolidated the lordship from the Kymer family, and sold it to the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1873.