Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Grave Hudson, 1st Baronet FRS (3 April 1730 – 24 October 1813) married well and became the owner of Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire.

[1] His elder sister, Jane Catharine, married in 1769 George Keate, poet, writer, and friend of Voltaire.

Catherine was the eldest of four daughters, all co-heiresses; as part of the marriage settlement, Hudson had to make payments to his wife's sisters to balance the inheritance from his father-in-law.

[8] In August 1804, one of Hudson's daughters, Harriet, married Sir John Richardson,[9] a lawyer who became a judge.

[11] The 2nd baronet successfully challenged his father's 1812 will; the Master of the Rolls considered that his request that his executors pass on his wealth (2,500 pounds) to the children that were surviving 28 years after his death was too vague and remote.

Wanlip Hall