Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, 12 March 1812
My dear Hodgson,—Requested or rather commanded by the great, I write
to request your ‘vote and interest’ for the Duke of Rutland and Lord
Palmerston. The latter I conceive you will oppose from principle. . . . . Lonsdale has just left me: he is a most excellent, clever, and
affable fellow. I am highly delighted with him. You will see him ![]()
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at Cambridge in a day or two; when, I hope, he will be
able to arrange something with you touching the Easter holidays. My plans are
not yet made up; but my wavering is in consequence of your delay in settling.
Lonsdale is my agent to treat with you: he and I will
meet you anywhere. In haste.
Most truly yours,
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.
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).
John Lonsdale, bishop of Lichfield (1788-1867)
A leading figure in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; he was a contemporary
of Francis Hodgson at Eton and future Bishop of Lichfield (1843).
Henry John Temple, third viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)
After education at Harrow and Edinburgh University he was MP for Newport (1807-11) and
Cambridge University (1811-31), foreign minister (1830-41), and prime minister (1855-58,
1859-65).
