Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Edward Dwyer to Francis Hodgson, [1811]
My dear Hodgson,—Ten thousand thanks for your very kind letter, which
I have transmitted to the Duke, who, I am
sure, will consider himself under no small obligation, not only for the very
handsome manner in which you support him, but also for the valuable
intelligence of the state of parties which it conveys. I officiate to-morrow at
Lincoln’s Inn, both morning and evening, but intend, if I have time, to
see the Duke, and the moment I have anything to communicate I shall transmit it
to you, whom we may regard as one of our main pillars. I saw our friend
Drury on Thursday, and am chagrined
to find that the report of his preferment is without foundation.
Yours ever,
Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778-1841)
The eldest son of Joseph Drury, Byron's headmaster; he was fellow of King's College,
Cambridge and assistant-master at Harrow from 1801. In 1808 he married Ann Caroline Tayler,
whose sisters married Drury's friends Robert Bland and Francis Hodgson.
Edward Dwyer (1813 fl.)
A college (?) friend of Byron, Hodgson, and Henry Drury. An Edward Dwyer (d. 1838) was
secretary to the Catholic Association and an ally of Daniel O'Connell
Francis Hodgson (1781-1852)
Provost of Eton College, translator of Juvenal (1807) and close friend of Byron. He wrote
for the
Monthly and
Critical Reviews, and was
author of (among other volumes of poetry)
Childe Harold's Monitor; or
Lines occasioned by the last Canto of Childe Harold (1818).
