Samuel Hodgson | |
Constituency Am: | West Moreton |
Assembly: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start: | 28 September 1868 |
Term End: | 13 June 1870 |
Predecessor: | Patrick O'Sullivan |
Successor: | John Ferrett |
Alongside: | George Thorn, Jr., Frederick Forbes |
Office1: | Member of the Queensland Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 6 November 1871 |
Term End1: | 16 April 1872 |
Birth Date: | 1838 |
Birth Place: | England |
Death Place: | Isle of Man |
Birthname: | Samuel Hodgson |
Nationality: | English Australian |
Spouse: | Margaret Lucinda Forbes (b.1867) |
Occupation: | Businessman |
Samuel Hodgson (1838 – 29 November 1886) was both a member of the Queensland Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]
Hodgson was born in England in 1838. He arrived in Queensland in 1863 and within a year, he was a partner in a firm trading as Clarke, Hodgson & Co. He entered politics in 1868, winning the seat of West Moreton, holding it till 1870. A year later, Hodgson was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council but resigned just six months later.[1]
Hodgson left to return to England in 1886 but died at his home Ellenbrooke, on the Isle of Man later that year.[1]