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Major Sir Robert James Hudson KCMG MC KC (15 May 1885 – 17 June 1963) was twice acting Governor of Southern Rhodesia.Born in Mossel Bay Cape Colony the son of George Matthews Hudson Hudson was educated at Diocesan College Rondebosch and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge where in 1908 he became the first South African to gain a half blue for tennis.Hudson was called to the Bar Middle Temple in 1909 and moved to Rhodesia to practice as a barrister in Bulawayo.Following the outbreak of World War I Hudson served with the 1st Rhodesia Regiment in Southwest Africa and then moved to England to become a pilot for the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force.