HODGSON, J or Henry Raynor
J. Hodgson is noted as an exhibitor from Bridewell Lane, Bury St Edmund’s, Suffolk in 1874, of one work at the Royal Academy ‘The Chalk Mill’ and a sketch at the Society of British Artists. I have been unable to find any J. Hodgson in Bury St Edmund’s during this time and it probably an error for the only Hodgson in Bury St Edmund’s at this period. Henry Raynor Hodgson, who was baptised at Charsfield, Suffolk on 24 August 1815, son of Robert Hodgson and his wife Sarah née Gowing. In 1851, an ironmonger, at 10 Meat Market, Bury St Edmund’s and married at Bury St Edmund’s in 1859, Sarah Risbrook. In 1871, a ‘retired victualler’ living at Bridewell Lane, Bury St Edmund’s with his 53 year old wife Sarah. He died at Bury St Edmund’s in 1873, aged 57, without issue.