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Hodgson William Brown 1801-1871
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William Hodgson was born in Georgetown, USA. He studied oriental languages while working for the Department of State, became a dragoman in the Barbary States and was Acting Consul in Algiers from 1826-29. He returned to Washington in 1830 but in 1832 went to Constantinople and then on to Egypt in 1834. In 1836 he was in London. This is possibly when the manuscript was given to the Royal Asiatic Society. In 1837 he left Washington for Lima, Peru, but was taken ill at Panama. He also served in Tunis in 1842, but returned to America via many European countries in 1842 to marry Margaret Telfair. He became a mainstay of the Georgia Historical Society. He died in New York in 1871.