James Stephen Hodson

Rev Dr James Stephen Hodson DD FRSE (1816-1890) was a British academic and Anglican priest who served as rector of Edinburgh Academy from 1854 to 1869.

He was born in Clifton, Bristol in 1816/7, the eldest son of Reverend George Hodson (1787-1855), later archdeacon of Stafford and chancellor of Lichfield Cathedral. His mother was Mary Stephen. A younger brother was William Stephen Raikes Hodson, who adopted a military career and founded Hodsons Horse Regiment.

Hodson studied Divinity at Balliol College and Merton College in Oxford, graduating in 1837. He served as a curate at Sanderstead in Croydon. He moved to be perpetual curate of St Giles' Church, Longstone in Derbyshire around 1847. During this period he is listed as a member of the British Archaeological Association.

He succeeded Rev. John Hannah FRSE (1818-1888) as rector of Edinburgh Academy in 1855. For his time as rector of Edinburgh Academy he was living at 62, Great King Street (the former home of Dr Robert Graham) in Edinburgh’s Second New town.

In 1855 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being James Russell. He resigned in 1873.

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