[368]. Beaven’s Aldermen of the City of London, II., pp. 109, 186.
[369]. Lipscombe’s History of Buckinghamshire, II., p. 222.
[370]. G. E. C[ockayne’s] Peerage.
[373]. Campbell’s Lives of the Lord Chancellors, IV., p. 560.
[374]. Wheatley and Cunningham (London Past and Present, III., p. 137), mentioning his residence, which they wrongly identify with Nos. 55–56, say: “Here on October 18, 1740, the young Joshua Reynolds came to him as a house pupil and remained under his roof till July, 1743.” Leslie, in his Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, also states that this occurred at Hudson’s house in Great Queen Street. The ratebooks, however, show quite clearly that in 1740–42, “Vanblew,” was in occupation, and that from 1743 to 1745 the house was empty. The first year in which Hudson is shown as the occupier is 1746. Reynolds’ residence with Hudson, therefore, must have terminated before the latter had moved to the house in Great Queen Street.
[375]. The entry “Geo. Hudson” in the issue of the ratebook for this year is probably a mistake.
[376]. The Dictionary of National Biography states that Worlidge settled in Great Queen Street in 1763, and the fact that Hudson’s name appears in the 1764 ratebook is not conclusive against this. On the other hand, a deed dated 9th May, 1764, mentions the house as being then in the occupation of Hudson (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1764, II., 491).
[377]. The parish ratebook for 1764 shows Hudson still in occupation of the house, but he had apparently built his house at Twickenham before this. “In 1762 Reynolds dined one Saturday with his old master, Hudson, at ‘Twitenham,’ where he had built a house in the meadows” (Leslie’s Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, I., p. 213).