Hodgson, Brian Houghton, Orientalist, born near Macclesfield; served in the East India Company, and was Resident in Nepal for more than 20 years; was a voluminous writer on Eastern ethnology, languages, and zoology, and his valuable collection of MSS. remains the chief source of our knowledge of northern Buddhism (1800‒1895).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hodgkinson, Eaton * Hodson, Major William