A sketch of the life and work of the late Dr. Alfred Hudson. Physician to the Queen in Ireland

Abstract

As this is the first occasion on which the Hudson Scholarship has been awarded, it seems fitting that some one should explain how this Scholarship has been created, and should, even in a brief and imperfect way, tell the students of this hospital something of the great physician whose name it bears. I willingly undertake this duty, believing, as I do, that you who are now starting on your professional careers may learn lessons of the utmost value from the story of his life and work. Alfred Hudson was the son of a Congregational clergyman in Staffordshlre. He began his medical education as the apprentice of a general practitioner in his native town, but his father does not appear to have been happy in the selection of a master for his son. He spent his time in a comfortless surgery, and was left, as far as his master was concerned, without any instruction in the practice of the profession he had adopted. In the same town, however, a Circumstances prevented the appearance in this Journal of any notice of the late :Dr. Hudson at the time of his death, and we, accordingly, gladly publish this sketch of his life and character. It formed part of an Address given by Dr. James Little, on the occasion of the firs~ adjudication of the Hudson Scholarship. /k short time before Dr. Hudson's death his brother, l~r. Henry Hudson, of Chester, munificently placed at :Dr. Hudson's disposal the sum of one thousand pounds, to be applied as he thought right in the promotion of medical education in :Dublin, and Dr. Hudson put it in trust to found a scholarship in connexion with the Adelaide Hospital.-Ed. :D. J. of 1VI. S.