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Richard Hodgson (1804, Wimpole Street, Marylebone, Central London – 4 May 1872, Chingford, Essex) was an English publisher and amateur astronomer. Educated at Lewes, Hodgson worked for some years at a banking-house in Lombard Street. In 1834 he joined Boys & Graves to form Hodgson, Boys & Graves.〔(Hodgson, Boys & Graves, WorldCat Identities )〕 In 1836 he formed with Henry Graves the publishing company Hodgson & Graves.〔(National Portrait Gallery, Hodgson & Graves )〕 In 1839 their company founded ''The Art Journal''. In 1841 Hodgson retired from publishing to work on daguerrotypy. In the late 1840s he created the Hawkwood estate.〔(Hawkwood Lodge and Richard Hodgson plaque )〕 After a number of years of achieving considerable success in daguerrotypy, he worked on telescopic and microscopic observations. According to his obituary in the ''Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'': Hodgson was made in 1848 a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and in 1849 a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. ==See also== *Solar storm of 1859 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Hodgson (publisher)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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