Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Thomas Denman to Francis Hodgson, 14 December 1828
My dear Hodgson,—Your friendly remembrance has been more highly
prized than any other of the numerous congratulations we have received. . . .
It is really a very gratifying event, and has been done in such a manner as to
confer honour on all the parties concerned.1 To me it
is an augury ot good feeling and justice and liberality towards that numerous
class who are punished for no crime, and whose punishment does but recoil to
plague the inventors.
We all unite in every good wish to Mrs. Hodgson and yourself, and I need not say
how truly and affectionately
I am always yours,
Thomas Denman, first baron Denman (1779-1854)
English barrister and writer for the
Monthly Review; he was MP,
solicitor-general to Queen Caroline (1820), attorney-general (1820), lord chief justice
(1832-1850). Sydney Smith commented, “Denman everybody likes.”
Francis Hodgson (1781-1852)
Provost of Eton College, translator of Juvenal (1807) and close friend of Byron. He wrote
for the
Monthly and
Critical Reviews, and was
author of (among other volumes of poetry)
Childe Harold's Monitor; or
Lines occasioned by the last Canto of Childe Harold (1818).
Susanna Matilda Hodgson [née Tayler] (1791-1833)
Daughter of Archdale Wilson Tayler (1759-1814) who married Francis Hodgson in 1815. Her
sister Ann Caroline married Henry Drury and her sister Elizabeth married Robert
Bland.
