Authorised form of name | Hodgson; Brian Houghton (1800 - 1894) |
Dates | 1800 - 1894 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Prestbury, Cheshire, England |
Date of birth | 01 February 1800 |
Place of death | 48 Dover Street, London |
Date of death | 23 May 1894 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Alderley, Gloucestershire |
Research field | Ethnology |
Activity | Education: Haileybury College Career: Writer in the HEIC Bengal Service, Calcutta (1818); Assistant Resident, Kathmandu (1820-1829); Acting Resident (1829-1831); Resident (1833-1843); visited England (1843); returned to India privately to study ethnology in Darjeeling; Resident Minister at Nepel. Memberships: FLS; Correspondant de l'Institut de France; Royal Asiatic Society; Asiatic Society of Bengal (Honorary)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 07/06/1877 |
Relationships | Son of a partner in the banking firm of Hawkins, Miles and Company of Macclesfield, and his wife Catherine, daughter of William Houghton of Manchester. Married: 1) (1853) Anna, daughter of General Harry Alexander Scott (she died 1868); 2) (1870) Susan, daughter of Rev Chambre Townshend of Derry, county Cork |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1896-1897 vol 60 pp xxiii-xxvi signed by J D H |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/76482249 |
Code | NA6460 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1877/08 | Hodgson, Brian Houghton: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/9/478 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 25 May 1894 |
MC/11/75 | Letter from B H [Brian Houghton] Hodgson, Alderley, Wotton under Edge, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society] | 11 June 1877 |
MC/11/80 | Letter from B H [Brian Houghton] Hodgson, Alderley, Wotton under Edge, Gloucestershire, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 12 June 1877 |
MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |