Septimus Hodson (1768–1833): Born in Huntingdon, the son of Robert Hodson (d. 1803), Rector of Huntingdon. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge 1779–1784, he was ordained in 1787 and was perpetual curate of Little Raveley 1787–1833 and Rector of Thrapston 1789–1828; he was appointed chaplain-in-ordinary to George IV in 1788 and chaplain of the Orphan Asylum in Lambeth in 1789. He was dismissed from the latter two posts in 1797 when it became known that he had assaulted a thirteen-year-old child at the Asylum. He married Margaret Hodson as his fourth wife in 1826. Hodson was also the author of a number of Sermons, though their contents were not always original – he was charged with plagiarism by the Monthly Review in 1789.

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