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Thomas Hodson
A Wesleyan missionary, teacher, and language scholar, he spent much of his life in India and became closely associated with early Kannada-language education. His work blends faith, language study, and firsthand observations of 19th-century South India.
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Old Daniel
by Thomas Hodson
About the author
Born in 1804 in North Scarle, Lincolnshire, Thomas Hodson was a British Wesleyan missionary who served in India for many years. Reliable biographical sources identify him as active in Calcutta, Bangalore, Mysore, and Gubbi, where he worked as a preacher and especially as a teacher.
He is remembered in particular for his connection to the Wesleyan Canarese Mission and for helping run one of the first Wesleyan Mission Canarese schools in the old Mysore State. Sources also describe him as a linguist and Kannada scholar who was fluent in Tamil and Bengali.
Hodson also wrote on language and mission life, including work on Kannada grammar, and his writings preserve vivid glimpses of South India in the 1800s. I couldn't confirm a clear modern portrait photograph of him from the available pages, so no profile image is included.