Chairman of the Royal Navy Club.
A native of Manchester, Peter Hudson joined the Royal Navy straight from school as a warfare officer in 1980. After numerous watchkeeping and training appointments he specialised as a Navigator and served in the aircraft carrier HMS INVINCIBLE and on the staff of Flag Officer Sea Training.
Sea Command followed in HMS COTTESMORE and the frigate HMS NORFOLK and, in 2002 as a Captain, he was appointed as the first Commanding Officer of the assault ship HMS ALBION. He also has served as the Commodore of the UK’s Amphibious Task Forces, he commanded the EU’s Counter Piracy Mission off Somalia and from early 2013, he served as NATO’s sole Maritime Commander and senior global maritime advisor to the military head of NATO.
Ashore, he served as Director of the Naval Plans and Financial Resources team in the MoD and the Future Capability Division in Navy Command.
Vice Admiral Hudson retired from the Royal Navy in 2016. Thereafter he served as Maritime Advisor to BAE Systems and is presently the Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He is a Freeman of the City of London, a Younger Brother of Trinity House and President of CCF.