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 Mainwaring (MP) George Mainwaring (MP) Sir George Mainwaring (before 1551 – 1628) was an English politician. He was the only son of Sir Arthur Mainwaring, MP of Ightfield, Shropshire and educated at Shrewsbury School (1562) and the Inner Temple (1565). He succeeded his father in 1590 and was knighted c. 1593. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Shropshire in 1572. He was a Justice of the Peace for Shropshire by 1593, was appointed custos rotulorum of Shropshire c.1593-96 and a deputy lieutenant by 1608. He was also a member of the Council of the Marches of