Alfred Edmund Hudd was a native of Clifton, Bristol, England.
19 Facts About Alfred Hudd
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Alfred Hudd was a member of a number of societies, often assuming leadership positions.
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Alfred Edmund Hudd, son of leather merchant Samuel Hudd and his wife Mary Ann, was born in the second quarter of 1846 in Clifton.
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Alfred Hudd was first appointed to the Council of the society on 6 May 1875, and remained a member of the Council for years, until about 1892.
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Alfred Hudd was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of London, founded in 1833, and now known as the Royal Entomological Society of London.
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Alfred Hudd contributed a short chapter on "The Insects of the Bristol District" to the Handbook to Bristol and the neighbourhood.
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Alfred Hudd was elected secretary of the Clifton Antiquarian Club at its first meeting on 23 January 1884 at the Bristol Museum and Library.
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Alfred Hudd retained that position during all twenty-eight years of the original society.
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Alfred Hudd served as editor of the society's seven volumes of Proceedings, contributing 21 papers.
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Alfred Hudd was a member of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, and served on its Council.
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Alfred Hudd was closely involved with the Caerwent Exploration Fund.
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In September 1899, at Caerwent, Godfrey Morgan, Lord Tredegar, was elected President of the Caerwent Exploration Fund and Alfred Hudd was elected Treasurer.
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Alfred Hudd proposed his theory in a paper which was read at 21 May 1908 meeting of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, and which appeared in Volume 7 of the club's Proceedings.
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In "Richard Ameryk and the name America," Alfred Hudd discussed the 1497 discovery of North America by John Cabot, an Italian who had sailed on behalf of England.
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Alfred Hudd postulated that Cabot named the land that he had discovered after Ameryk, from whom he received the pension conferred by the king.
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Alfred Hudd stated that Cabot had a reputation for being free with gifts to his friends, such that his expression of gratitude to the official would not be unexpected.
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Further, Alfred Hudd quoted a late 15th-century manuscript, the original of which had been lost in an 1860 Bristol fire, that indicated the name America was already known in Bristol in 1497.
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Alfred Hudd reasoned that the scholars of the 1507 Cosmographiae Introductio, unfamiliar with Richard Ameryk, assumed that the name America, which he claimed had been in use for ten years, was based on Amerigo Vespucci and, therefore, mistakenly transferred the honour from Ameryk to Vespucci.
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Alfred Hudd married Adeline Sophia Tyzack in the fourth quarter of 1891 in the registration district of Kensington, London.