Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hudson, Mary
HUDSON, MARY (d. 1801), organist, daughter of Robert Hudson [q. v.] , was elected organist of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, on 20 Dec. 1781, at a yearly salary of twenty-five guineas, and held this post until her death on 28 March 1801. During the last eight or nine years of her life she also fulfilled the duties of organist at the church of St. Gregory, Old Fish Street.
She was the composer of several hymn tunes, and of a setting for five voices of a translation of the epitaph on Purcell's gravestone, commencing `Applaud so great a guest!' The hymn tune 'Llandaff' is assigned both to her and to her father.
[Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 755; Vestry Minutes of St. Olave's, Hart Street; James Love's Scottish Church Music (1891),p. 175.]