Hudson Ralph Janisch

{{Short description|Governor of St Helena from 1873 to 1890}}

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Hudson Ralph Janisch, CMG,{{London Gazette|issue=24464|date=30 May 1877|page=3442}} FRAS (died March 1884) was Governor of St Helena from 1873{{London Gazette|issue=24022|date=3 October 1873|page=4429}} until his death in 1884. He is the only St Helena-born governor of the island.

During his tenure as Governor, he was forbidden to reside at Plantation House, the governor's official residence, on economic grounds.{{Cite book |last=Smallman |first=David L. |title=Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002 |publisher=Patten Press |year=2003 |location=Penzance, Cornwall |pages=}}

A grand-daughter was the South African educationalist Miriam Janisch.