Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet (6 February 1897 – 29 November 1956) was a Conservative Party

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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He was elected at the 1922 general election

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 as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Islington East

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, but lost the seat at the 1923 election

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. He returned to Parliament

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 at the 1924 general election

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 when he won the Hackney North

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 seat from the Liberal Party

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 MP John Harris

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. He held that seat until the Labour

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 landslide at the 1945 general election

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, when he lost by a large margin to Labour's Henry Goodrich

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Hudson was returned to the House of Commons

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 at the 1950 general election

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 for the new Lewisham North

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, which he represented until his death in 1956, aged 59.

In Ramsay MacDonald

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's National Government 1931-1935

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 he was a Lord of the Treasury

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 (government whip

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, and in the second National Government

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 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

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 from 1935 to 1939, and then Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1939 to 1940. He was reappointed to the Admiralty in Winston Churchill

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's war-time Coalition Government

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, and left the government in March 1942. He returned to office briefly in 1945, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel, Light and Power in the Caretaker Government 1945

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 which held office from May to July that year.

He was made a baronet

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 in July 1942, of North Hackney

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, in the County of Middlesex

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