Bernard Hodgson (b 5 November Westminster 1743 – d Oxford 28 May 1805) was an Oxford college head.[1]
Hodgson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.[2] On 30 October 1775 he became Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. A Hebraist and poet, he translated Song of Solomon (1786, The Proverbs of Solomon (1788) and Ecclesiastes: a New Translation from the Original Hebrew (1790); and "The Monastery: a Poem on the Building of a Monastery in Dorsetshire" (1795).
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"Hodgson, Bernard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
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