(Jeffrey). See DWARF.

(Henry), an eminent English navigator, who, about the beginning of the last century, undertook to find out a passage by the north-east or north-west to Japan and China. For this purpose he was four times fitted out; he returned three times unsuccessful; but in the last voyage, in 1610, being persuaded that the great bay to which his name has been since given, must lead to the passage he sought, he wintered there, to prosecute his discovery in the spring. But their distresses during the winter producing a mutiny among his men, when the spring arrived, they turned him, with his son and seven sick men, adrift in his own shallop, and proceeded home with the ship. As Hudson and his unhappy companions were never heard of afterward, it is to be supposed they all perished.

(John), a very learned English critic, born in 1662. He distinguished himself by several valuable editions of Greek and Latin authors; and, in 1701, was elected head keeper of the Bodleian library at Oxford. In 1712, he was appointed principal of St Mary's Hall, through the interest of the famous Dr Ratcliffe; and it is said that the university of Oxford is indebted for the most ample benefactions of that physician to Dr Hudson's solicitations. He died in 1719, while he was preparing for publication a catalogue of the Bodleian library, which he had caused to be fairly transcribed in folio volumes.