Dedicated to the memory of Liam Hudson
Please share your memories of Liam with us --pictures, videos or messages are all welcome. Your posted memories will be treasured and form part of a lasting tribute for Liam's family.
Details regarding the funeral ceremony and where to join us after to remember and celebrate Liam in a more informal setting can be found below.
If you are planning to attend, please could you complete the following web form: https://forms.office.com/e/XZj67BzBcc
For those unable to attend in person, the ceremony will be webcast.
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Sadie and Pippa! You did a wonderful job. It was a huge, yummy, success!
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Poppy Olivier
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I am still reeling from learning of Liam’s death on Thursday evening and very sad to have missed the ceremony only the day before. Thank you to his family for making it possible to watch the recording which I did on Friday evening with plenty of both tears and laughs.
I was one of the Imperial early 1990s gang and remember the flat with the corridor kitchen and those sofas. I learned many things about Liam from the lovely recollections – a musical hinterland, a bit more of an understanding of his professional achievements, his hairsbreadth escape from the Twin Towers and excellent taste in poetry. But most of all I just recognised the Liam everyone was celebrating – witty, ferociously bright, driven and confident, all tempered with kindness, an enormous capacity for friendship and the ability to light up a conversation or a room. Grief is the price of love and to those closest to Liam I offer my heartfelt sympathy.
Jean Innes
11th February 2024
Looking through the photos, I can hear Liam's voice in my head very clearly and it is hard to believe I won't see him again. Liam was the funniest guy I know and we had such a laugh together. His humour is so ingrained in me that I think I am still using some of his jokes or Middlesborough catchphrases even though I have been living away in Canada for the past 17 years - unfortunately some of them are a bit too blue to repeat here! Liam and I met in our first few days at university at Imperial College in 1990 where we were in the same hall of residence (Falmouth-Keogh). Later on we shared a flat and even a room together. One story that comes to mind from that time was when we tried to cook a Christmas dinner and invited our friends, especially the female ones, and unfortunately gave them salmonella. We had many adventures together including going on holiday in the south of France after graduation (thanks Stuart for the loan of your parents' place!) and got false tattoos to look good on the beach, going to Egypt and sailing down the Nile in a Falucca which cost $10 for two (or was it three?) days where you wouldn't know what millennium it was, let alone century, and the captain was called Captain Cook (actually the food was good...). We also spent an amazing week sailing in the Caribbean on a yacht where we had no license and only dinghy experience but Liam and Sarah's NYC sailing Club Membership so impressed the proprietors they let us take their nicest boat. And then there were some skiing trips where I'd have to go ahead and clear the slopes so Liam and Stuart could race each other (and time each other using what were at the time new fangled GPS watches - Liam loved gadgets). The best story of all is the "Red Wellies Story", which has become a legend in my own family, and comes ultimately from Liam's parents I guess: when Liam was very young, maybe 3 years old, he was given a new pair of red wellington boots. He loved them so much that he wore them all the time and when his parents went into his room one night to check on him they realized he was going to bed with them on and there they were sticking out of the covers. So whenever anybody in my family tells a cute story we all shout `Red Wellies!' Rest in peace Liam. You enriched my life and I am going to miss you a lot.
Duncan O'Dell
7th February 2024
“Hudson on the Hudson” – a thought that often comes to mind when I exit Chambers St subway in downtown Manhattan and see the tall apartment block overlooking the Hudson river where Liam and Sarah lived in the early 2000s.
Not bad having a Manhattan apartment with a view of a river bearing your name, but that was Liam – stylish (even as a computer geek) and ever the high achiever from when I first met Sarah and him when we all began our Physics degrees at Imperial in 1990.
Right until the end Liam seemed to be pushing back the boundaries in his fight against this cruel disease, in true Liam style. Rest in peace Liam. You compressed so much into your shortened years. Thank you for the happy memories from good times in London, Paris and New York - typically over good food and wine once we got past the student budget years. May your grieving daughters be proud of the wonderful father they had.
Angela Barr
6th February 2024
