Author: Hodgson, Henry
Biography:
HODGSON, Henry (1753-1815: ancestry.co.uk)
He was baptised on 16 Feb. 1753 at Toft next Newton, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, the son of John Hodgson, farmer, and his wife Ann Bridges, who had married in 1750. He went to school locally at Caenby and proceeded to Peterhouse College, Cambridge (matric. 1771, BA 1775). He then entered the church and became Curate at Market Rasen in 1777. Dr. John Jebb, a well-known liberal clergyman and writer, encouraged him to study medicine and he then went to Edinburgh in the 1780s where he obtained the MD degree. He returned to Market Rasen around 1786 and continued as Vicar of Tealby (1779-1815) and Corringham (1782-1815), Lincolnshire. He married Rebecca Watson on 3 July 1778 at Market Rasen, and they went on to have at least eight children. John Nichols, who probably wrote the GM obituary (reprinted in Illustrations [1858] 8: 344n), states that he was also the author “of several pamphlets on the Whig side of the question during the wars of the American and French revolutions” but does not list any and they remain unidentified. He was most widely known for The Duty of Universal Benevolence Enforced: in Three Sermons (1778). He contributed many articles to GM, some of which have been identified. He died on 22 Nov. 1815, aged 62, at Market Rasen. (ancestry.co.uk 9 Feb. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 9 Feb. 2022; CCEd ; Stamford Mercury 24 Nov. 1815; GM Dec. Supp. 1815, 640; E. L. de Montluzin, GM Attributions, bsuva.org/bsuva/gm2/GMintro) AA