Joseph Hodgson
1788–1869 (age 81)
Biography
Joseph Hodgson was a physician who practiced medicine during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Born in 1788, Hodgson was part of a generation of medical professionals who witnessed and contributed to the advancement of medical science and practice during a period of considerable professional development and reform.
Hodgson's career in medicine earned him respect and standing within his profession and community. He lived to the age of eighty-one, dying in 1869, and was interred at Highgate Cemetery, a testament to the professional distinction and social prominence he had achieved during his long life.