Identity:
James Stewart Hodgson was a merchant, magistrate and collector. By 1881 they had three daughters, Mary, Agatha and Ruth (aged 16, 14 and 8), and a host of servants, and were living at 24 Prince's Gate, London.
Life:
He and his wife Gertrude may have known JW in the mid-seventies, when their names appear in an address book (#12714).
Bibliography:
UK census 1881, from http://www.familysearch.org (accessed 2004).