The Times, September 27, 1985
The Right Reverend A. W. Goodwin Hudson, who died on September 18th, had been Hon. Assistant Bishop of Derby since 1981. Hudson, a well known Anglican Bishop and Dean of Sydney from 1960 to 1965.
Ordained Deacon in 1940 and priest in 1941 he was Curate of St Paul, Chatham before becoming an Hon Chaplain to the Forces contemporaneously with his being Vicar of Good Easter, Essex, 1942-1945.
From 1945 to 1948 he was English Chaplain and Head Master of the Windsor School, Santiago, Chile.
During this period he meet Billy Graham in America and was from 1961 to 1978 chairman of the Billy Graham Association of England. He was Hon. General Secretary to the South American Missionary Society from 1949 to 1960.
On his return to London from Sydney where he and been vigorous in his use of television as a missionary aid, he was from 1965 to 1979, Vicar of St Paul’s, Portman Square where he was responsible for the building of the church on a new site.
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