Thomas Hodson

For the professor of social anthropology, see Thomas Callan Hodson.

Thomas Hodson
Born
Thomas Hodson

9 February 1804
North Scarle, Lincolnshire, UK
Died9 September 1882(1882-09-09) (aged 78)
England
Known forMissionary, Wesleyan Canarese Mission, Bangalore Petah and Gubbi, Linguist, Kannada Scholar
Spouse(s)Mary Ann Atkinson (1798–1866) and Sophia Simpson (born 1836)
ChildrenRichard George Hodson (born 1830) and Margaret Hodson (born 1871)
Wesleyan Wayside Canarese Chapel at the Bangalore Petah (1856)[1]
Missionary (Hodson) preaching near entrance to Goobbe, 1836 (Hodson, 1877, p. 33)[2]
Goobee Mission cottage (Hodson, 1877, p. 46)[2]
Gobbee Chapel (Hodson, 1877, p. 78)[2]
Singonahully Chapel and village gateway (Hodson, 1877, p. 82)[2]
Wesleyan village chapel and school near Bangalore, by Thomas Hodson (1859)[3]

Thomas Hodson was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah and Gubbi. He helped in running the first Wesleyan Mission Canarese school in the erstwhile Mysore State. Hodson was a linguist and a Kannada scholar, and was also fluent in Tamil and Bengali. He helped in establishing the Wesleyan Canarese Chapel (now the Hudson Memorial Church) at Nagarthpete in the Bangalore Petah. In 1864, Hodson wrote An Elementary Grammar of the Kannada, or Canarese Language, a treatise on the grammar of the Kannada language.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Offering1857 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d Hodson, Thomas (1877). Old Daniel, or, Memoir of a converted Hindoo : with observations on mission work in the Goobbe circuit and description of village life in India. London: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 78. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  3. ^ Sanderson, Sarah (March 1859). "Wesleyan Village Chapel and School Near Bangalore - 24 November 1858". Wesleyan Juvenile Offering. XVL: 24. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. ^ Moister, William (1885). Missionary worthies, being brief memorial sketches of ministers sent forth by the Wesleyan missionary society who have died in the work from the beginning. London: T Woolmer.
  5. ^ Hodson, Thomas. "School and schoolhouse, Bangalore - Hodson's letter Dec 24 1836". Historic Houses Trust. Retrieved 20 November 2015.