Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant Sir Austin Hudson, Bt., Royal Berkshire Regiment and Guards Machine Gun Regiment, later Member of Parliament for Islington, Hackney, and Lewisham, and Commanding Officer, 1st London Battalion, Home Guard

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. U. M. Hudson.); Defence Medal, nearly extremely fine (3) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet of North Hackney, was born on 6 February 1897, the son of Leopold Hudson Esq., and his wife Ethel, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment as Second Lieutenant on 16 June 1915, he was promoted Lieutenant on 21 December 1915 and served with them during the Great War, and with the Guards Machine Gun Regiment in France from March to November 1918, where he was wounded. He transferred to the Reserve of Officers with the rank of Captain on 22 May 1920. Elected Conservative Member of Parliament for East Islington in 1922, and Hackney North in 1924, he held various ministerial posts throughout the 1930’s, and served as Commanding Officer of the 1st London Battalion, Home Guard, during the Second World War. He was created a Baronet in July 1942, and subsequently served as Member of Parliament for North Lewisham from 1950 until his death.

Sir Austin married Miss Peggy Broadbent, only daughter of Charles Broadbent Esq., and his wife Hilda, daughter of Sir John Brunner, Bt., in 1930. He died without issue and heirless on 29 November 1956.