What is "hodgson"

Hodgson is a surname. In Britain, the Hodgson surname was the 173rd most common (766 per million) in 1881 and the 206th most common (650 per million) in 1998. In the United States of America, Hodgson was the 3753rd most popular surname (30 per million) in the 1990 census.

Hodgson may refer to:

• Hodgson, a surname
  • List of people named Hodgson

• Hodgson, Edmonton, a neighbourhood in southwest Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Hodgson, Manitoba, a village in Manitoba, Canada
• Hodgson Lake, a subglacial lake in Antarctica
• Hodgson Lake (Renville County, Minnesota), a lake in Renville County, Minnesota, United States

• E. F. Hodgson Company, a 20th-century US mail-order company
• Ferrier Hodgson, an Australia-Asia Pacific accountancy company

• 2888 Hodgson, a main-belt asteroid
• Hodgson Report, a report by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1884
• USC&GS Hodgson (CSS 26), a coastal survey ship in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1946 to 1967

Captain Hodgson (dates of birth and death unknown) was an amateur English cricketer.

Hodgson represented pre-county club Hampshire in a single first-class match in 1817 against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Hodgson also played a single first-class match for W Ward's XI in the same year.

It is unknown whether Hodgson's title of Captain is a military or nautical rank or simply a nickname.