George Hudson Leeman’s plans to build a line from York to Market Weighton. The estate, bought as an investment for his sons and cost £500,000. lt was sold to pay off some of Hudson's debts. Elizabeth Hudson lived here for many years whilst Hudson lived in exile. Hudson lived here in 1870–1871 and died at this address. Hudson House, on the site of the former York and North Midland Railway terminus in York, is named after him, as is George Hudson Street in the City of York running parallel to North Street. There is a Hudson Street in Whitby and a Hudson
George LeRoy Hudson George LeRoy Hudson George E. LeRoy Hudson (August 4, 1883 – January 14, 1952) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. Hudson was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1913 Alberta general election, winning the new Wainwright electoral district for the Conservative party in a hotly contested election over Liberal candidate H.Y. Pawling in which he won by less than 100 votes. Hudson was re-elected to his second term in the Legislature in the 1917 Alberta general election by acclamation under section 38 of the "Election Act" that stipulated that Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta who went