HUDSON,+James+William

HUDSON, James William (c1800-c1870) Secretary, Society for the Acquisition and Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Greenwich 1843; Secretary Leeds Mechanics Institute 1844; Secretary Athenaeum (Glasgow) 1847; CL Athenaeum (Manchester) 1849-1859 He was exceptionally active in the world of MIs and similar institutions and particularly in organizing their various unions. He published //The history of adult education// (1851) which was probably a revised updating of his doctoral thesis (1848) at the University of Giessen. It remains one of the major sources on the early history of MIs. In 1860 he founded and ran, for about seven years, a private technical school in Manchester. B R Villy 'James William Hudson, PhD', //Manchester Review//, Winter, 1962-1963, //pp//352-361