BONNEY DIARY: 16.5.1794 Hudson printer, McManus his assistant dined with Bonney and John Miller, Bow Street officer (one of his arresting officers) at Kings Arms Tavern the day after his arrest
E Hudson printer of Bell Yard was In Bailey's directory 1794. Thomas Hardy DNB 1752-1832 mentioned in his interrogation by the Privy Council in May 1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/963) Edward Hodgson printer of 22 Bell Yard. Unlike Bonney, Joyce and Thelwall, Hardy did not refuse to answer the Privy Council but the names he gave may have been deliberately innocent ones. Stationers Company records showed Edward Hodson Bell Yard 1792, also James Hodson there. The names Hudson, Hodson and Hodgson were frequently interchanged (see Hodgson, William in Godwin Diary dataset) but the usual spelling of this family of printers was Hodson. Edward Hodson was bapt 6.5.1768 son of Francis & Ann Hodson at St Michael Cambridge. Francis Hodson of Cambridge will PCC 1812 was sole proprietor of the Cambridge Chronicle & Journal. He mentioned a brother James in his will dated 2.10.1809 and this may have been the James Hodson bapt 27.7.1753 at Burton-upon-Trent, Staffs son of Nathaniel & Mary who was apprenticed in 1770 to Thomas Fletcher printer of London and later took as apprentices the aforesaid Edward son of Francis of Cambridge in 1783 and Edward's brother Francis in 1789. Both James and Edward were of Bell Yard in 1792-6 and in 1802-10 were in partnership at 15 Cross St, Hatton Garden, where James baptised several children at the Swedenborgian chapel. London Corresponding Society Genl C'ttee 17.4.1794 Citn Edward Hodson to fill up the Cttee. Edward Hodson of Bell yard voted 1796 for Pickett & Combe James married Harriet Clarkson 19.5.1788 at St Andrew Holborn, sister of George Clarkson (QV*) of Essex St (Horne Tooke's solicitor in the treason trials) drew up and witnessed James Hodson's will in 1812. Their daughter Harriet Clarkson Hodson (born 1796) married in 1818 Harry Hodson ( 1794-1821) son of Edward Hodson who had married Sarah Maria Goddard Rosser at St James Piccadilly in 1792. Edward Hodson's will PCC 1817. James Hodson was also a Doctor of Medicine and advertised himself as having the patent to Velno's vegetable syrup