Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 29 April 1815
13 Piccadilly Terrace: Saturday evening, April 29.
Dear Mr.
Hodgson,—I am desired by B. to write you a few lines of
recommendation for your new pupil to convey to you. I cannot make out ![]()
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exactly what I am to say except that Mr. H. was desirous
B. should write to recommend him to you,
and that he is as usual lazy, and wishes me to tell you
he would have written, but that Lady B. has
been unwell, and her uncle died last week.
I am sure you will be glad to hear that I think her better, and that B. is very
well.
Now for the pupil. To the best of B.’s knowledge and belief he is excessively clever, but
rather behind-hand from a long vacation of fourteen months. He is to be brought
up to the Bar, and nobody can bring him there so soon as you, B. says.
Yours very sincerely,
I am allowed to add a P.S. to excuse myself for writing
such a stupid letter, it being B.’s dictation. One word of common-sense. B. desires
me to add Lady B. is ———, and that
Lord Wentworth has left all to her
mother, and then to Lady B. and children; but B. is, he says, a ‘very miserable dog’ for all
that!
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).
Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh [née Byron] (1783-1851)
Byron's half-sister; the daughter of Amelia Darcy, Baroness Conyers, she married
Lieutenant-Colonel George Leigh on 17 August 1807.
Thomas Noel, second viscount Wentworth (1745-1815)
The son of Edward Noel, first viscount Wentworth of Wellesborough and only brother of
Judith Milbanke; upon his death his heirs took the name Noel.
