Hodgson, BRIAN HOUGHTON

Hodgson, BRIAN HOUGHTON (1800-95), orientalist, was born near Macclesfield, entered the East India Company's service in 1818, was Resident in Nepal from 1820 to 1843, and settled in England in 1858. He wrote some 170 very valuable papers on the ethnology, languages, and zoology of Nepal and Tibet, sent home 354 MSS., on which our knowledge of northern Buddhism is mainly based, and made a collection of 10,500 birds. He was F.R.S., &c. See Life by Sir W. Hunter (1896).