JOHN

See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• JOHN HUDSON (1662–1719)

HUDSON (1662–1719)  , English classical scholar, was born at Wythop in Cumberland . He was educated at Oxford, where the remainder of his life was spent . In 1701 he was appointed Bodley's librarian, and in 1711 principal of St Mary's Hall . His political views stood in the way of his preferment in the church and university . He died on the 26th of November 1719 . As an editor and commentator he enjoyed a high reputation both at home and abroad . His works, chiefly editions of classical authors, include the following: Velleius Paterculus (1693); Thucydides (1696); Geographcae Veteris Scriptores Graeci minores (1698–1712) containing the works and fragments of 21 adthors and the learned, though diffuse, dissertations of H . Dodwell—a rare and valuable work, which in spite of its faulty text was not superseded until the appearance of C . W . Muller's edition in the Didot series: the editio princeps of Moeris, De Vocibus Atticis et Hellenicis (1712); Josephus (1720, published posthumously by his friend Anthony Hall, the antiquary), a correct and beautifully printed edition, with variorum notes and translation . See Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, iv.; introduction to the edition of Josephus; W . Hutchinson, History of Cumberland (1794) .