Robert Hodgson (9 October 1844) was Dean of Carlisle from 1820 to 1844.

Life

He was born to Robert Hodgson, of Congleton, and Mildred (née Porteus) in early 1773. He was baptised on 22 September 1773 at St Peter's Church, Congleton. Hodgson was a close relative (by marriage on his father's side and by blood on his mother's side) of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, whom he wrote a biography about.

Robert Hodgson (priest)

On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Augustine Warner Jr., who presided as the Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses during Bacon's Rebellion (Warner served before the Rebellion in 1676, and after the Rebellion in 1677.)

Robert Hodgson (priest)

Hodgson was educated at Macclesfield School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated BA as 14th Wrangler in 1795. He was rector of St George's, Hanover Square for over forty years, from 1803 until his death in 1844.

Robert Hodgson (priest)

Family

Hodgson married Mary Tucker on 23 February 1804. Their son, George Henry Hodgson, was a Lieutenant aboard on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition. Their daughter Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

References

Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Fellows of the Royal Society

Archdeacons of St Albans

Deans of Chester

Deans of Carlisle

1844 deaths

1773 births