Christopher Hodgson

Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (* 1821 in Hertfordshire , England ; † October 11, 1865 in Pau , Bayonne , France ) was an explorer, writer and diplomat.

Christopher Hodgson was the fourth son of Edward Hodgson, a vicar , and his wife Charlotte, née Pemberton. After training at Eton and Cambridge , he traveled to Sydney , New South Wales in Australia in 1839 . He then worked on cattle stations on Darling Downs in what is now Queensland .

1844 Hodgson participated in the first Australia expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt part. This expedition left Jimbour on October 1, 1844. After Leichhardt had found that there was not enough food to reach the destination, he sent two crew members back on October 5. This is how the research trip for Hodgson and for the Afro-American chef Caleb ended. In Australia, news spread that Hodgson had been murdered in a dispute among the expedition members. An expedition was sent to clarify the matter and followed the traces of the Leichhardt expedition. But this rumor soon cleared up.

Hodgson went back to England, where he published the Reminiscences of Australia, with Hints on the Squatter's Life in 1846 and The Wanderer and El Ydaiour as travelogues in 1849 . From 1851 to 1855 he was Vice Consul in Pau, Bayonne, in France, and then in Caen . From February 1859 he was appointed consul in Hakodate in Japan, where he also worked as a consul for France.

He was married and had a daughter. He finished his diplomatic service in 1861 and died in 1865 at the age of 44.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ baxleystamps.com C. Pemberton Hodgson: Residence at Nagasaki and Hakodate in 1859–1860 , accessed on May 1, 2013 (English).
2. ↑ adb.anu.edu.au : Beverley Kingston: Hodgson, Christopher Pemberton (1821–1865) , accessed on May 1, 2013 (English).