HODGKINSON

Eaton ( son of Mr. Hodgkinson of Anderton, parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, farmer, d. 1795 ). b. Anderton 26 Feb. 1789; ed. at North wich gram. sch.; pawn broker, Salford, Manchester 1811; pupil of Dr. John Dalton of Manchester 1811; member of Manchester Lit. and Philos. society 1826, president 1848–50; F.R.S. 1841; profe or of mechanical principles of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1847; hon. M.I.C.E. 1851; F.G.S.; experimented on strength and forms of iron beams and invented Hodgkinson’s beam; his paper on Strength of pillars of cast iron in Philos. Trans. obtained for him Royal soc. royal medal 1841; edited Practical e ay on strength of cast iron, By T. Tredgold 5 ed. 1860. d. Eagles field house, Higher Brought on near Manchester 18 June 1861. Life of E. Hodgkinson in Memoirs Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. ii , 145 (1861); Proceedings of royal society, xii , 11–13 (1862); Minutes of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi , 542–45 (1862).