In memory of

Colin Hudson

15/1/1938 – 22/2/2004

Site maintained by Dick Hudson – please contact me if you want to offer more material (e.g. photographs) for this site.

New in 2021: a documentary film about sugar production in Barbados which shows Colin’s harvester in action. [Just a few seconds of it at 50 seconds from the start of the film.]

Tributes

To browse the tributes, click here.

Tributes by:

• Stella
• Caribbean Environmental Reporters’ Network (press release)
• Counterpart International (press release)
• Daily Nation Feb 23 2004
• Roxanne Gibbs
• Ministry of Housing, Lands and the Environment (press release)
• Weekend Nation Feb 27
• Richard Hoad
• Joth Singh
• Henry Fraser
• Terry Ally
• Adrian Loveridge
• Ella Drummond-Hoyos
• Nicholas Cox
• Barbados Advocate March 2
• Patience Ejimofor
• Wayne Yearwood
• Weekend Nation March 5
• Barbados National Trust (press release)
• Rory Spowers
• Dr Trevor Carmichael 5 June
• Mrs Susan Springer 18 June
• John Cole 31 October
• Jill McLean (Hammond) 25 April 2007
• Barbados Advocate 8 February 2008
• Barbados Advocate 24 February 2008

More pictures

• His recent life
• Colin and Maureen’s house and garden at Little Edgehill, Barbados
• His funeral and some memorials

A musical tribute

Commemorative awards

• Dr. Colin Hudson Award for Innovation, presented in 2004 by Enterprise Growth Fund Limited to Mr. John Philip.
• Dr. Colin Hudson Scholarship, a studentship for which funds are currently being sought by CERMES (Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, University of the West Indies).

Other related web sites

• • Web of Hope – his brainchild
    • From the Web of Hope newsletter for December 2008:

Each month we will introduce you to a member, or members, of the Web of Hope team. This month we will start with Web of Hope founder Dr Colin Hudson, who died in February 2004. In 1994 Colin, a British agricultural engineer who had been living in Barbados for forty years, mobilised 3,000 volunteers on the island to come together and create The Village of Hope. This temporary ‘village’ showcased ‘Initiatives of Hope’ from around the world. The event was such a success that Colin was invited to be the catalyst for a similar Village of Hope at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg during 2002, and this led directly to the creation of The Web of Hope. Colin’s vision, energy, passion, and deep knowledge gave The Web of Hope much of its initial character, and continues to underpin what we do now.

• Colin’s talk in Wrington, 2003
• The launch of the Barbados Environmental Society