• Name: Hodgkins, Thomas
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date:
• Death Date:
• Occupation: manager

Godwin employed Hodgkins to run the bookshop which he and Mary Jane established in 1805 in Hanway Street. The shop was originally established under Hodgkins's name, so as to avoid attracting the suspicion of the government and the opprobrium of the anti-jacobins. The exact course of events is not entirely clear but the biographies suggest that Hodgkins remained the shop manager for a period of just over two years. Certainly, the Morning Chronicle advertisements for Baldwin's Fables and History are for Thomas Hodgkins's shop throughout 1806 and early 1807.

In August of 1807 the relationship broke down (at this point the wider Hodgkins family also seem to become involved). Godwin appears to be negotiating for Skinner Street (and having people sleep there), and he seems to have brought a constable into proceedings with Hodgkins. The biographies suggest that Hodgkins had been taking a cut in the profits of the business. Godwin managed to get rid of him and shortly after moved the business under the name M.J. Godwin to premises in Skinner Street. On 4 September there was an advertisement for Lamb'sTales from Shakespeare printed for 'the proprietors of the juvenile library, who remain unnamed, but located in Skinner Street. The Morning Chronicle for 21 January 1808 has one advertisement referring to the proprietors, and one that still used Hodgkins's name but at Skinner Street. Otherwise the advertisements are not linked to a name until 18 November 1808 when M.J. Godwin appears for the first time.

Godwin's diary entries for Hodgkins focus on the period around his initial employment and that around his dismissal (with nothing in-between - suggesting that Godwin only exceptionally included trades people or servants in his diary. There is, however a further entry for 1810 which may or may not refer to him (it may refer to a Jo Hodgkins whom Godwin records meeting in August 1807, who was probably a relative of Thomas). Neither the 1810 entry or Jo Hodgkins have been coded at Thomas. Nor have any of the Mrs Hodgkins entries.

• MS. Abinger c. 9, fol. 15: 12 June 1805
• MS. Abinger c. 30, fols. 126-7: 1806
• MS. Abinger c. 20, fol. 87: not dated
• Morning Chronicle, 1805-8 passim
• St Clair
• Marshall
• Locke

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