Richard Hodgson (1804, in Wimpole Street, Marylebone,

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) was an English publisher and amateur astronomer. Educated at Lewes, Hodgson worked for some years at a banking-house in Lombard Street. In 1834 he joined Boys & Graves to form Hodgson, Boys & Graves. In 1836 he formed with Henry Graves the publishing company Hodgson & Graves. In 1839 their company founded '' The Art Journal''. In 1841 Hodgson retired from publishing to work on daguerrotypy. In the late 1840s he created the Hawkwood estate. After a number of years of achieving considerable success in daguerrotypy, he worked on telescopic and microscopic observations. According to his obituary in the '' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'': The geomagnetic storm they observed is now known as the

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, which spurred the study of space weather. Hodgson was made in 1848 a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and in 1849 a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society.

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1804 births 1872 deaths Publishers (people) from London 19th-century British astronomers 19th-century English photographers People educated at Lewes Old Grammar School People from Marylebone Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society Photographers from Essex 19th-century English businesspeople {{Publish-stub

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