Guide to the Papers of Reverend Francis Henry Hodgson (as filmed by the AJCP), 1841-1929
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Summary
- Collection number:
- M729
- Creator:
- Hodgson, Francis Henry, Rev
- Extent:
- 5 items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example:M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Available for reference.
Background
- Content Summary:
- The main part of the collection is 'Notes on My Life' 23 November 1848-2 July 1924, being detailed recollections of his life and the history of his family. There is also a small journal written in 1860, when he was 12; a newspaper cutting about his brother E.D. Hodgson; a pencil sketch of Head Station, Eton Vale 1841; and a printed map, with manuscript additions, of part of the Balonne and Dawson River basins of south-east Queensland, given by Ludwig Leichhardt to Sir Arthur Hodgson.
- Biographical / Historical:
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Francis Henry Hodgson (1848-1930) was the son of Sir Arthur Hodgson, a Queensland grazier and politician, and the grandson of Sir James Dowling, the chief justice of New South Wales. He was born in Rickmansworth, England. In 1849 the family returned to Queensland and Hodgson spent his early years at Eton Vale, their sheep station on the Darling Downs. In 1860 he returned to England, where he lived for the rest of his life. His parents joined him in England in 1870.
Hodgson attended a preparatory school at Thorpe Mandeville, near Banbury, and went on to Eton. He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1871, and was ordained a priest in 1874. He was the vicar of Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire (1878-93), the rural dean of Watford (1884-93), the rector of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire (1893-99), the rector of Escrick, Yorkshire (1899-1904), the rural dean of North Kineton, Warwickshire (1908-18), and the rector of Clifford Chambers, Warwickshire (1818-26).
In his later years Hodgson lived at Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Mary Horsman Solly in 1881 and they had four children. She died in 1888 and in 1896 Hodgson married Elizabeth Odeyne de Grey. They had one daughter.
In 1925-26 Hodgson and his wife visited Australia and spent a short time in the country where he had lived in his childhood.
Access and use
- Conditions Governing Access:
- Available for access.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example:M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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