Thomas Hodson
| Thomas Hodson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thomas Hodson 9 February 1804 North Scarle, Lincolnshire, UK |
| Died | 9 September 1882 (aged 78) England |
| Cause of death | Old age |
| Known for | Missionary, Wesleyan Canarese Mission, Bangalore Petah and Gubbi, Linguist, Kannada Scholar |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Atkinson (1798-1866) and Sophia Simpson (born 1836) |
| Children | Richard George Hodson (born 1830) and Margaret Hodson (born 1871) |
| Parent(s) | Richard Hodson and Ann Towning |
Thomas Hodson was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah and Gubbi. Thomas helped in running the first Wesleyan Mission Canarese school in the erstwhile Mysore State. Thomas was a linguist and a Kannada scholar, and was also fluent in Tamil and Bengali. Hodson 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.
Thomas Hodson was born in 1804, at North Scarle, Lincolnshire, England. In 1829, we came to India as a missionary of the Wesleyan Mission. Initially he was stationed in Calcutta between 1829-1833, where he learned Bengali for nearly 3 years. Between 1833-1836, he was transferred to Bangalore, where he learnt Canarese and Tamil. In 1836, he was appointed to Mysore, and then to Gubbi in 1837. Appointed back to Mysore, he served between 1838-1843. In 1843, he returned to England due to bad health. However, in 1853, he returned to India, and was appointed the Chairman and Superintendent of the Wesleyan Canarese Mission in the Mysore District. Leaving India in March 1878, for England where he died on 9 September 1882.
Mary Ann Hodson, the wife of Thomas died on 10 August 1866, aged 68 years, and is buried at the Agram Protestant Cemetery in Bangalore. The Agram cemetery also has the graves of Jane Peach Rice wife of Benjamin Rice of the London Missionary Society who died on 11 March 1864 aged 57, Catherine wife of Matthew Trevan Male of the Wesleyan Missionary Society who died on 29 August 1865 aged 49, Fanny Lees child of Catherine and Matthew Male born 29 January 1861 and died 24 April 1861, and Rev. Alexander Maceallum, Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland died 10 June 1862.
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