George Hudson payment of 12 shillings and 6 pence recorded in the Howsham poor book as being “received of George Hudson for bastardry”. Hudson was apprenticed to Bell and Nicholson, a firm of drapers in College Street, York. He finished his apprenticeship in 1820, was taken on as a tradesman, and given a share in the business early in 1821. On 17 July that year he married Nicholson's daughter Elizabeth. When Bell retired, the firm became Nicholson and Hudson. By 1827 the company was the largest drapery, indeed the largest business, in York. In 1827, his great-uncle Matthew Botrill fell ill and
George Knapp (MP) George Knapp (MP) George Knapp (1754 – 1809) was a British Member of Parliament. George Knapp was born during 1754 in Abingdon, the son of a grocer. He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School). George and his younger brother Henry became grocers, running a shop in West St Helen Street before George became a banker. George started a career in politics and by 1780 was a freeman. He later became a burgess, bailiff and chamberlain and was four times Mayor of Abingdon. He defeated Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 1st Baronet for the Abingdon seat in