[2] A slow left round-arm bowler, he took 174 first-class wickets at 15.80, with a best of seven for 23 against an All England XI.
Hodgson was perhaps a trifle faster, but he also used to bowl good slows with a break.
He had a very good-natured grin, and I remember once that when at Bradford (August, 1864) he got me stumped by Ned Stephenson when I had made 80, he consoled me with a smile which was broad enough to put any man in a good humour.
"[3] Hodgson was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, where he died just past his 39th birthday.
It is believed that there exists an epitaph on his Bradford gravestone: