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 Garrard (MP) George Garrard (MP) George Garrett or Garrard (1579 – after 1650) was an English Member of Parliament. He was a younger son of Sir William Garrard of Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London 1568-69. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford from 1594, graduating BA in 1597 and MA in 1603. He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber extraordinary to Prince Henry in 1610-12. He was in the employ of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury from 1614 to 1672. In 1621 he was elected Member of Parliament for Wigan in