Brian Houghton Hodgson - Brief Return in England

Brief Return in England

Hodgson resigned in 1844 when Lord Ellenborough posted Henry Lawrence as Resident to Nepal and transferred Hodgson an Assistant Sub-commissioner at Simla. He then returned to England for a short period. During this time Lord Ellenborough was himself dismissed. He visited his sister Fanny who had become Baroness Nahuys. In 1845 he settled in Darjeeling and continued his studies of the peoples of northern India for thirteen years. During this period he was visited by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Hodgson's son Henry was sent to tutor the son-in-law of Jang Bahadur Rana of Nepal. In 1857 he influenced Lord Canning to accept Jang Bahadur Rana's help in suppressing the mutiny in Nepal. In 1858 he again returned to England and settled in the Cotswolds. He died at Alderley.

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