Francis Hodgson

[2] In 1806 he was appointed assistant master at Eton, a post which he resigned after a year to become a resident tutor and Fellow at King's College, Cambridge.

In 1813 Francis Hodgson wished to marry Susanna Tayler (sister-in-law of Henry Drury, master at Harrow School).

The Fellows of Eton, however, rejected his nomination on the basis that Hodgson was not a Doctor of Divinity, a qualification that had always previously been required for the post.

As he drove over Fifteen Arch Bridge (the approach to Eton from the north) to begin his tenure as Provost, Hodgson was reported to have said, "Please God, if I live, I will do something for those poor boys.

Among other works, he made a translation of Juvenal (1808) and wrote Lady Jane Grey, with Miscellaneous Poems in English and Latin (1809) and Sir Edgar, a Tale, in two Cantos (1810).