Roger Selwyn Barrow Hudson was a general surgeon in Sydney, Australia. Born on 31 January 1921, he was the son of Alfred Roy Hudson, a medical practitioner and his wife Gertrude Irene née Barrow. He attended Newington College in Stanmore, Sydney and then studied at the University of Sydney Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1944. During the second world war he served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 118 Australian General Hospital in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, doing general medical duties. After the war he did house jobs at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and was a surgical tutor at Sydney University. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1950. From 1967 to 1969 he was honorary secretary to the New South Wales branch of the Australian Medical Association. On 30 January 1947 he married a nurse, Frances Betty Stokes Scriven. They had a son and two daughters one of whom became a nurse and married a doctor. At school and university he was a keen cricketer and later took to racing Olympic class yachts – he won the Southern Cross cup for New South Wales in 1981/82. An accomplished chess player, he took part in a match in 1989 in Melbourne when the then world champion Anatoly Karpov played 25 games simultaneously. He died in 2011.