Brian Houghton Hodgson ( 1800 - 1894 )

Birth: Prestbury, Cheshire, England (01 February 1800) Death: 48 Dover Street, London (23 May 1894) Burial: Alderley, Gloucestershire Research Field: Ethnology Education: Haileybury College Career: Writer in the HEIC Bengal Service, Calcutta (1818); Assistant Resident, Kathmandu (1820-1829); Acting Resident (1829-1831); Resident (1833-1843); visited England (1843); returned to India privately to study ethnology in Darjeeling; Resident Minister at Nepel.