Robert Hodgson (priest)
Robert Hodgson, FRS, DD, MA was Dean of Carlisle from 1820 to 1844.
He was the son of Robert Hodgson, of Congleton, and Mildred. He was a close relative of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London. Hodgson wrote a biography of Porteus.
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.Family
Hodgson married Mary Tucker on 23 February 1804. Their daughter Henrietta Mildred Hodgson was a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
