You can see the diminutive courtier in portraitist Anthony van Dyck’s 1633 masterpiece “Queen Henrietta Maria With Jeffrey Hudson and an Ape,” recently on display at the Huntington Library ...

Jeffrey Hudson might have only been 45cm tall but he wrote himself into history after fighting for the king in the English civil war and shooting a man dead ... Known also as Lord Minimus, ...

Sir Jeffrey, who was 45cm tall (18in), was known as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus". He was first noticed by the court at the age of seven, when he was served up in a pie wearing a suit of ...

A duelling dwarf loved by the Royal Family was "knighted for bravery" - before he spectacularly fell from favour. "Sir" Jeffrey Hudson was a larger-than-life character in the 17th century. Green ...

LORD MINIMUS: The Extraordinary Life of Britain's Smallest Man Nick Page, . . St. Martin's, $16.95 ... From it emerged a fully proportioned, 18-inch boy named Jeffrey Hudson.

IN 1644 Jeffrey Hudson, England's smallest man, just three feet nine inches short, grew tired of the insults and jokes hurled at him. He announced he would challenge the next person who ridiculed ...

Sir Jeffrey Hudson, born in Oakham in 1619, was just 45cm high ... Sir Jeffrey, whose other nickname was Lord Minimus, was later painted by the famous Flemish artist Van Dyck.

Canada's Hudson's Bay Co <HBC.TO>, owner of the Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue retail chains, has yet to line up equity financing for a bid for Macy's Inc <M.N>, over a month after ...

A pair of trousers thought to have been worn by a 17th century court dwarf has sold for almost £10,000 at auction. Sir Jeffrey Hudson, who was born in Oakham, Rutland, in 1619, was a favourite of ...

Sir Jeffrey Hudson, from Rutland, fought in the English Civil War but was later enslaved. ... Sir Jeffrey, who was 45cm tall (18in), was known as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus".