Charles Donaldson-Hudson (12 February 1840 – 18 April 1893) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Donaldson-Hudson was born as Donaldson, the son of John Donaldson of Wigton Cumberland, and his wife Catherine Halliley, daughter of Anthony Halliley. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and after the death of his uncle Thomas Hudson in 1852 assumed the additional surname Hudson by Royal Licence in 1862, as his uncle had no issue. In 1870 at the age of 30 he inherited his uncles estates at Cheswardine according to the terms of his uncle's will. He was a J.P. for Shropshire and Staffordshire and in 1876 was elected a member of the London School Board. The current Cheswardine Hall, designed by John Macvicar Anderson, was rebuilt in 1875 o