Hudson, William Elliott

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1842–1843

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Details: 

Brother of Henry Hudson (Ferris).

Editor and financial backer of The Citizen, the magazine for which Henry Hudson edited the 'Native Music of Ireland' (Ferris) which published large amounts of traditional Irish melodies between 1841 and 1843 (Boydell)>

Co-editor (with Thomas Davis and W. Torrens McCullagh) of The Dublin Monthly Magazine (1842–43) which published 'arrangements of Irish airs for temperance bands' (McHale).

See Also: 

Davis, Thomas
Hudson, Henry
McCullagh, W. Torrens

Source(s): 

Ferris, Catherine, ‘The Use of Newspapers as a Source for Musicological Research: a Case Study of Dublin Musical Life 1840–44’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth, 2011), pp. 187–88

McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (p. 600)

Last Update: 19-09-2013