Hodgson, Luke

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Luke Hodgson of Snow Hill proposed Society for Constitutional Information 11.4.1794 by James Parkinson 2nded John Horne Tooke

parents Thomas Hodgson widower = St Stephen Walbrook 31.12.1751 Elizabeth Groombridge spinster both of St Mary Mag Bermondsey / Luke Hodgson baptised St Dunstan Stepney 10.5.1765 16 days old / father  Thomas Hodgson merchant Mile End Old Town 1765 / uncle Luke Hodgson will PCC 1766 / Luke Hodgson apprenticed 14.2.1780 for 7 yrs to William Blackmore surgeon of St George Middlesex premium £50 / father Thomas Hodgson will PCC 1788 all to widow Elizabeth / father Thomas Hodgson buried 19.5.1788 Bermondsey age 85 from Stepney / Luke Hodgson druggist son of Thomas Hodgson deceased gent of Mile End admitted 20.5.1788 to Wheelwrights Company / Luke Hodgson bachelor, druggist of St Sepulchre & Peter Ashmore brush maker of the same place sigs to bond 15.6.1790 for marriage of Luke Hodgson to Sarah sp age 17 dau of Peter Ashmore, wedding 15.6.1790 St Sepulchre wits Peter, Elizabeth & Ann Ashmore, Nathl Burke / directory 1790 Luke Hodgson chemist & druggist 36 Cow Lane, West Smithfield / 20.11.1795 on committe of petition of over 2000 names in ward of Farringdon Without against Assembly bill / Dec 1795 elected common councilman along with Robert Waithman (DNB 1764-1833) / Times 13.10.1796 (presumably satirically) "the celebrated Dr Hodgson of Cow Lane Smithfield a gentleman extremely well-known for his elegant deportment and manners" / Telegraph 27.10.1796 steward of Friends of Freedom meeting / Feb 1799 governor of Bethlem & Bridewell hospitals, won damages of one shilling from printer of the Sun who said he had washed his flute after patriotic tunes had been played on it (the Sun, and perhaps the Times above, had maybe confused him with the surgeon William Hodgson, see that name in Godwin Diary dataset) / Luke Hodgson of Giltspur St bur 7.2.1814 St Peter Westcheap age 43 (transcription error for 48?) / will PCC 1820 of Peter Ashmore mentioned daughter Sarah Hodgson widow