Thomas P. Hudson

[3] Tommy Hudson and Harry Braham formed a partnership and left Plymouth for Australia aboard St Vincent on 6 September 1871 and arrived in Adelaide on 25 November.

They opened there in December 1871,[4] followed by Melbourne and Sydney in a minstrel troupe whose members included Lizzie Watson (who married Braham), basso Ted Amery and a Mr Wood.

Support artists included the soprano Isabel Webster and tenor James Wood from Melbourne, the Adelaide basso H. R. "Bert" Holder and pianist May Habgood, Hudson's wife.

She then returned to Melbourne, staying in fashionable Toorak for the Cup season,[9] The tour was highly profitable; takings in one evening in Sydney amounted to £2790,[10] several million dollars in today's values.

[11] He lived with vocalist Ada Maven (real name Amelia Salter) for around ten years, then on 20 May 1888[12] he married the pianist May Eleanor Habgood A.R.C.M.,[d] who died 12 November 1898, aged 32.