20-05-2025
Revealer of our wild beauty
From The Times, May 20, 1925Bright May sunshine dappling the turf of Hyde Park through the green foliage, with a chorus of bird songsters above, made altogether suitable surroundings yesterday morning for the unveiling by the Prime Minister of the WH Hudson memorial in the Bird Sanctuary, near the Powder Magazine.
A large company of admirers of Hudson had gathered in a semi-circle before a low platform set under a large tree, and directly behind was the memorial itself.
The Prime Minister said that they were gathered together that May morning to honour a rare and remarkable spirit. It was more than 80 years ago since Hudson was born in a land where, to use his own words, he heard 'the little yellow finches
