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Viscount Hudson

extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7935778 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viscount Hudson, of Pewsey in the County of Wiltshire, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 January 1952 for the Conservative politician Robert Hudson. He was the son of Robert William Hudson and the grandson of soap-flake manufacturer Robert Spear Hudson. The title became extinct on the early death of the first Viscount's son, the second Viscount, in 1963.

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“Viscount Hudson” enters the record as extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Viscount, Hudson and extinct can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-01-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Viscount, Hudson and extinct.
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“Viscount Hudson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Viscount, Hudson and extinct provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7935778. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Viscount Hudson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.