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for the exercise of this he had ample scope during the ten years of 

 his residence afc the Nepal Court. The latter, never friendly to the 

 British alliance, was distracted by the often murderous intrigues of 

 Raja, princes, queens, ministers, and a dominant military class of 

 aggressive disposition, and Hodgson's main efforts were directed to 

 the establishment of trading relations with Nepal, and to warding 

 off or rendering abortive measures that would have led to hos- 

 tilities with the Company's forces, especially during the crises of 

 the Chinese, Affghan, and Punjab Wars. He persistently advocated 

 the policy of enlisting the fighting class of Nepal in the British 

 Army as a safe outlet for its activity, and it was greatly due to his 

 influence with his friend Jung Bahadur, and his representations to 

 Lord Canning, then Governor- General, that the former placed a 

 Ghurka force at our disposal during the Mutiny. 



In 1843 Mr. Hodgson retired from the service, and after a year's 

 visit to England, and disposing of his later collections, he returned 

 to India with the intention of pursuing chiefly his ethnological 

 studies. For this object he took up his residence at Darjiling, a 

 recently created health resort, nearly 7500 ft. above the sea, in the 

 unexplored Himalaya, east of Nepal. Here he resided for sixteen 

 years, in indifferent health, the result of repeated fevers in Nepal,, 

 but as indefatigable as ever in collecting and publishing in continua- 

 tion of his Buddhist, zoological, and ethnological work, and in fur- 

 therance of the adoption of vernacular education. 



In 1858 he finally returned to England, and resided first at the 

 Rangers, Dursley, in Gloucestershire, whence he removed in 1867 to 

 the Grange, Alderley, in the same county, frequently visiting London 

 during the summer months. Latterly, the winters were passed at 

 fhe Villa Himalaya, Mentone. He married first, in 1863, Miss Anne 

 Scott, daughter of General H. A. Scott, R.A. ; and, in 1868, Susan, 

 daughter of the Rev. Chambre Townshend, of Derry, Cork, who- 

 survives him. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 

 1835, and of the Royal in 1877 ; Corresponding Member of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society in 1828, and Vice-President in 1876 ; Corre- 

 spondent of the Zoological Society in 1859; D.C.L. (Oxon.) in 1889; 

 and Fellow or Correspondent of many other scientific and literary 

 bodies. The honours so early showered on him by France are given 

 above. In person Mr. Hodgson was very good-looking, and of singu- 

 larly frank and courteous bearing, communicative, and generous to a 

 fault. His was a remarkable case not only of inherited loiigevit}-, 

 but of complete recovery in after life from the effects of long- 

 continued and often serious indisposition in India. He was fond oi 

 out-of-door exercise, and hunted till disabled by accident at sixty- 

 eight. He retained his faculties but little impaired till his death in. 

 the summer of 1894, leaving no family. He was buried at Alderley, 



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