Bernard Hodgson (b 5 November

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1743 – d

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28 May 1805) was an

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head. Hodgson was educated at

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and

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. On 30 October 1775 he became Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. A

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and poet, he translated

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(1786, The Proverbs of Solomon (1788) and

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: a New Translation from the Original Hebrew (1790); and "The Monastery: a Poem on the Building of a Monastery in Dorsetshire" (1795).

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People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Principals of Hertford College, Oxford British Hebraists 1743 births 1805 deaths People from Westminster {{UOxford-stub