Rev John Rathbone Hudson correspondence
Correspondence from Hudson whilst in India (principally when at Benares [Varanasi]) to his parents in England, 1907-1910, 1912. Incomplete, fragmentary and draft correspondence from Hudson whilst in India mainly to his parents, c1908-c1910.
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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/FBN 21 (fiche 916-929) |
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1907-1912 |
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Sub-series |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Hudson; John Rathbone (1879-1932); ordained missionary |
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SOAS Archive |
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MMS.17.02.06.03 |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/FBN 21 (fiche 916-929) |
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MMS/17/02/06/03 |
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MMS/17/02/06/03 |
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Rev John Rathbone Hudson correspondence |
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1907-1912 |
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Sub-series |
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2 files |
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Hudson; John Rathbone (1879-1932); ordained missionary |
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Hudson; John Rathbone (1879-1932); ordained missionary |
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Hudson; John Rathbone (1879-1932); ordained missionary |
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Hudson; John Rathbone (1879-1932); ordained missionary |
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Archive |
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John Rathbone Hudson was born in 1879. He spent a year at Gunnislake, Cornwall, before being accepted to train at Didsbury in 1904. His first posting after leaving Didsbury was to the Lucknow and Benares District in North India in 1907. For the next 24 years he and his wife worked in this district (except when Hudson served with the YMCA in France during WWI until 1916) evangelising and developing education, with a great deal of their work being amongst the Doms. Mrs Hudson spent some of her time visiting educational and medical institutions but was also involved with working with the wives of servants in the cantonments. She also supervised for a time the girls' school in Sadr Bazar. Her husband oversaw the transfer of the Wesley Industrial School to Benares [Varanasi] in 1920.
In 1931 Rev Hudson agreed to take up a three year appointment to the East India Mission in British Guiana [Guyana], in part working amongst those Indians contracted to work on the sugar plantations. In 1932 he became acting chairman of the district but after a journey on the Essequibo River he was taken ill and died from malaria and enteric fever on 13 September 1932. In 1939 a memorial church was erected in his honour at the Industrial School in Benares [Varanasi]. |
| description |
Correspondence from Hudson whilst in India (principally when at Benares [Varanasi]) to his parents in England, 1907-1910, 1912.
Incomplete, fragmentary and draft correspondence from Hudson whilst in India mainly to his parents, c1908-c1910. |
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GB/SOASNAF/P953 GB/SOASNAF/P954 |
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Subject of Subject of |
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1269750 7729895 1253407 |
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Open |
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Only to be viewed on microfiche. |
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Copyright probably held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
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For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
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English |
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English |
| scb_related_material |
Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for John Rathbone Hudson whilst in the Lucknow and Benares District (MMS/India/Correspondence/Lucknow/FBN 17-18). Further information on Hudson's work, as well as the work of his colleagues, will be contained in the relevant Synod Minutes (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/FBN 6-9). Correspondence (MMS/West Indies/Correspondence/British Guiana/FBN 40) and Synod Minutes (MMS/West Indies/Synod Minutes/FBN 13) are extant for the period Hudson served in British Guiana [Guyana]. |
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MMS |
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MMS.0017.0002.0006.0003 |