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William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist . Life. Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine ( née Kemble ), United States' settlers of English and Irish origin.
W.H. Hudson was a British author, naturalist, and ornithologist, best known for his exotic romances, especially Green Mansions. Hudson’s parents were originally New Englanders who took up sheep farming in Argentina. He spent his childhood—lovingly recalled in Far Away and Long Ago (1918)—freely.
William Henry Hudson earned his name as a naturalist, novelist and best-selling author of love letters to the South American wilderness, yet no one can quite agree on what that name should be.
When 32-year-old William Henry Hudson (also known by his Spanish name of Guillermo Enrique) first set foot in England, in the cold light of a May morning in 1874, he told those disembarking around him on Southampton quay that he didn’t want to come with them to London, where fortunes were to be sought. Not yet, anyway.
Apr 12, 2023 · In the words of war poet Edward Thomas, fellow writer William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) ‘did an eccentric thing for an English naturalist – he was born in South America’. In fact, Hudson lived on the pampas of Argentina until the age of 32, not setting foot in Britain until May 1874.
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William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was born in the Buenos Aires province to American parents. In 1874 he moved to England which he called his spiritual home. He became a Chairman for the Committee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 1894 and when he died he left the majority of his estate to them.
William Henry Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. His works include Green Mansions (1904). Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name.
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The naturalist and writer W.H. Hudson was born on 4 August 1841 near Buenos Aires, the son of New Englanders who had emigrated to Argentina as sheep farmers. He spent his childhood examining the flora and fauna of the pampas, then wild and remote frontier areas, but after a serious illness at 15 he became withdrawn and studious.
William Henry Hudson ( b. 4 August 1841; d. 18 August 1922), British naturalist and writer. Born on a farm near Buenos Aires to American parents, William Henry Hudson spent the majority of his youth on the Argentine pampas before emigrating to England in the late 1860s.
William Henry Hudson, 1841–1922, English author and naturalist, b. Buenos Aires of American parents. He spent his childhood on the pampas but developed a heart condition and finally emigrated to England in 1870. Hudson was a sensitive observer of nature, particularly of birds.
