HODGSON, William Ballantyne (son of William Hodgson a working printer). b. Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov. 1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839; principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11 March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51; lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr. of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of Lectures on education 1837; The education of girls 1864–6, 2 ed. 1869; The true scope of economic science 1870; Turgot, his life, times and opinions 1870 and other works. d. at Brussels while attending educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. Meiklejohn’s Life and letters of W. B. Hodgson (1885), portrait; Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 466–9 (1884).
HODGSON, William Nicholson (eld. son of Joseph Hodgson). b. Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8; M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863. d. 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.
HODSON, Ven. George (youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A. 1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham, Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience 1825; Morning discourses at Christ Church, Birmingham 1832; The church of Rome’s traffic in pardons 1838; The finished course 1855. d. Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.
HODSON, George A. (son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of numerous pieces). b. Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played Teddy the Tiler at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. d. Bath 27 June 1869. Era 4 July 1869 p. 11 col. 4.
HODSON, James. b. Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct. 1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. d. 17 March 1880. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii, 495 (1862).
HODSON, Margaret (eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress). b. 1778; author of Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance 1809, 2 ed. 1810; Poems 1811; Margaret of Anjou 1816; Warbeck of Wolfstein 1820. (m. 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire d. 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey, Coleridge and Landor; also published The lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana 1832. d. Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852. N. & Q. 2 S. i 113, 4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411.
HODSON, William Stephen Raikes (3 son of Ven. George Hodson 1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford). b. Maisemore court near Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist. commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Lucknow 12 March 1858. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India, By W. R. Hodson 1859; Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s Horse (1883); R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i 309, ii 14, 538; Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv (1888–89).
HOFFMEISTER, Sir William Carter (son of Charles William Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast). b. Portsmouth 6 July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug. 1884. d. Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.
HOGAN, John (son of a builder). b. Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct. 1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, A shepherd boy 1824 and a Drunken Faun; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50. d. Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv, 72 (1850), portrait; Art Journal, ii, 376 (1850), portrait.
HOGAN, John Sheridan. b. near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada 1826; newsboy for Canadian Wesleyan 1826, foreman, then on staff of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton; sent articles on Canadian politics to Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 1850; established United Empire newspaper at Toronto; accused of complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an essay on Canada and her resources, at Paris exhibition 1855; editor Toronto Daily Colonist 1856 and for some years; member for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; murdered near Toronto, Dec. 1859. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 229 (1887).