Lorenzo Hodson d.1748

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Lorenzo HODSON d.1748

Biographical Note

A member of a wealthy family from county Wicklow, Ireland, who owned an estate at Coolkenno in the early 18th century.

Books

Hodson used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 14988). The extent of his library is not known; his property seems mostly to have been inherited by his daughter Mary, wife of Abraham Nickson.

Sources

  • History of Coolkenno Hall.
  • Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.