1. Adam Hodgson was an English merchant in Liverpool, known as a writer and abolitionist.
17 Facts About Adam Hodgson
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Adam Hodgson was the son of Thomas Hodgson, a Liverpool merchant, and his wife Elizabeth Lightbody.
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Adam Hodgson then moved into cotton manufacturing, retiring from business in 1817 after losses.
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Adam Hodgson founded the first public wash-houses in the United Kingdom in the wake of the 1832 cholera epidemic, along with Kitty Wilkinson.
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Jones and Adam Hodgson were partners in insurance broking, the partnership being dissolved in 1845.
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In 1824 Adam Hodgson was on the founding committee of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company.
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Also on the committee was Lister Ellis, Liverpool merchant and plantation owner in British Guiana, and when Ellis died in 1829, Adam Hodgson was one of his executors.
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Adam Hodgson was a founder in 1831 of the Bank of Liverpool, with George Holt, Isaac Cooke and others, and became its Managing Director.
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At Caton, Adam Hodgson's residence was "Scarthwaite", on the River Lune.
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Adam Hodgson was one of those who formed a local branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in 1810.
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Adam Hodgson mentioned in Letters from North America that he belonged to the Church of England, and he was Treasurer of a Liverpool branch of the Church Missionary Society; he was considered an evangelical.
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Isaac, Adam Hodgson's brother, was the secretary of the Liverpool Anti-Slavery Society, properly the Liverpool Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
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Adam Hodgson was a friend of Adam, and they collaborated, both writing abolitionist pamphlets advancing economic and ethical arguments.
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When John James Audubon visited Liverpool in 1826 with an introduction from Vincent Nolte, Adam Hodgson arranged for him to meet Edward Stanley, a future Prime Minister with ornithological interests.
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In 1837 Adam Hodgson gave figures on inhabited cellars in Liverpool, at the British Association meeting, prompted by a report of the Manchester Statistical Society.
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Adam Hodgson gave a testimonial to Kitty Wilkinson, from Caton, who provided a washing-place for Liverpool cellar-dwellers and passed into folklore.
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The Liverpool branch of the Health of Towns Association was set up in 1845, and Adam Hodgson became its chairman.