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 Gale (MP) the poor of the City as well as monies to pay for repair of local roads. He was elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1529 after the death of Peter Jackson, one of two Members for the Constituency. Though he did not serve for the remainder of that Parliament, he stood for election in 1532-33. Gale was recorded as attending for most of that session. He was not recorded as having sat in the 1539 Parliament, but was re-elected for his final term in 1539. George Gale (MP) George Gale was Member of Parliament for York during the Parliaments