Thomas Hodson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetThomas Hodson
British missionary
Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1804
Place of Birth: North Scarle, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 09-Sep-1882
Profession: missionary
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Thomas Hodson
- Thomas Hodson was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in India, in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the Bangalore Petah and Gubbi.
- He helped in running the first Wesleyan Mission Canarese school in the erstwhile Mysore State.
- Hodson was a linguist and a Kannada scholar, and was also fluent in Tamil and Bengali.
- He helped in establishing the Wesleyan Canarese Chapel (now the Hudson Memorial Church) at Nagarthpete in the Bangalore Petah.
- In 1864, Hodson wrote An Elementary Grammar of the Kannada, or Canarese Language, a treatise on the grammar of the Kannada language.
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