What the Papers Say

The Observer January 15. 1928.

Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, GBE, of Hill Hall, Theydon Mount. Essex, for over thirty years Chief Agent of the Liberal Party, Chairman of the Joint War Finance Committee of the Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem, who died on November 27 last, aged sixty-three years, left unsettled property of the gross value £24,109, with net personally of £15,417. Probate of his will, dated November 9, 1926 has been granted to his widow.

He left :-

To the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, "from whom I have received much kindness and for whom I act as a trustee of the Westminster Abbey Fund," his framed page of the Vulgate, printedby Guttenberg between 1450 and 1455, "which was not merely the first printed Bible, but the first book printed from moveable type."

To Westminster Hospital his framed leaf of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," printed by Caxton in 1478 on premises near the present site of the Hospital, and £100.

To the Gladstone Benevolent Fund for Liberal Agents, £100 and the gold medal presented to him by Liberal agents; and to Sir Donald Maclean, £50 "with which I desire him to buy something which shall serve as a reminder of my affection for him and of happy associations in public work."

He expressed the desire that his remains should be cremated if it should be convenient, "it being my strong desire that my remains be disposed of with a minimum of fuss, delay, and expense," and he requested that no flowers should be sent and that no one should wear mourning for him.