HOBSON, William Robert (only son of Capt. William Hobson, governor of New Zealand, d. 1842). b. 1831; entered R.N. 1845; mate of the Rattlesnake in her expedition to Behring Straits as relieving ship to the Enterprise and Investigator 1853; lieut. 20 April 1855, served in Baltic campaign 1854–5; accompanied Capt. Francis L. M’Clintock in the Fox in search of Sir John Franklin 1857–9, in the sledge party April to June 1859, discovered 6 May 1859 in the cairn built by the crews of the Erebus and Terror the tin case containing the record that Sir John Franklin died 11 June 1847; captain 11 April 1866, retired 12 Aug. 1872. d. Pitminster near Taunton 11 Oct. 1880. I.L.N. 15 Oct. 1859 p. 362–3, portrait.
HOBY, Rev. James (son of George Hoby, boot maker to George III., St. James’ st. Piccadilly). b. London 1788; ed. at Bristol Baptist coll. 1812; assist. minister at Maze Pond chapel to 1823; minister at Birmingham, Weymouth and Twickenham; visited United States as one of a deputation from the Baptist Union 1836; author of Narrative of a visit to christian brethren in Hamburg, Copenhagen, etc. 1844; Memoir of William Yates, D.D. of Calcutta 1847; Anti-popery. A lecture 1851. d. Caterham 20 Nov. 1871. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men (1884) 242–3; Baptist Handbook 1872 p. 226.
HOCHSCHILD, Baron Charles. Ambassador and minister plenipotentiary from Sweden in London 6 Nov. 1854 to death. d. 8 Sep. 1857.
HODDER, George. b. 1819; ed. at Christ’s hospital; connected with Henry Mayhew in the initiation of Punch or the London Charivari 17 July 1841; connected with Morning Post; author of Memories of my time, including personal reminiscences of eminent men 1870; upset in a four-horse drag in Richmond park on 28 May 1870 when his skull was fractured, d. Richmond infirmary 31 July 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 175, 215 (1870); Times 4 Aug. 1870 p. 9.
HODGE, John. b. Scotland 10 April 1787; wholesale stationer and paper maker, firm being Spalding and Hodge, 145–7 Drury lane, London from 1810; largest house in England, probably in the world. d. 18 Gilston road, West Brompton, 15 Dec. 1865.
HODGES, Edward. b. Bristol 20 July 1796; organist of Clifton church, of St. James’s ch. Bristol 1819, of St. Nicholas’s ch. Bristol 1821–35; Mus. Bac. and Mus. Doc. Cam. 1825; went to Toronto, Canada 1835; went to U.S. of A. 1838; organist of Trinity ch. New York 1846–63; composed a morning and evening service and two anthems for reopening of St. James’s organ Bristol 2 May 1824, published 1825; published An apology for church music and musical festivals, Bristol 1834; Canticles of the Church, New York 1864. d. Clifton 1 Sep. 1876.
HODGES, Rev. Edward Richmond. b. 1826; scripture reader in London; sent by Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews, as a missionary to Palestine; missionary in Algeria to 1856; minister of reformed episcopal church; author of Ancient Egypt 1851; edited Craik’s Principia Hebraica 1863; Cory’s Ancient fragments of the Phœnician and other authors 1876 and other books. d. Tollington park, Holloway, London 9 May 1881. Academy 18 June 1881 p. 454.
HODGES, Sir George Floyd (son of George Thomas Hodges of Limerick). b. Old Abbey, Limerick 1792; ensign 61 foot 28 Aug. 1806; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1810–15; adjutant recruiting district 5 May 1825 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; commanded British and foreign legion in Portugal under Dom Pedro 1832; chargé d’ affaires and consul general to Hanse Towns 31 July 1841 to 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1860; author of Narrative of the expedition to Portugal in 1832 under the orders of Dom Pedro 2 vols. 1833; contributed many articles to periodicals. d. 60 Lansdowne place, Brighton 14 Dec. 1862.
HODGES, James. b. Queenborough, Kent 6 April 1814; engineer, worked under contractor for Greenwich railway 1834; superintended construction of Shakespeare tunnel, Dover and blasting of Round cliff, Down 1842–3; resident engineer on Norfolk railway; contracted for 50 miles of Great Northern railway; superintended construction of Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence 1853–60; engaged in manufacturing peat fuel in Canada 1862; constructed the Callao docks 1870–5; a great benefactor to Bagshot; author of Construction of the great Victoria bridge in Canada 1860. d. Perry hill, Bagshot, June 1879. I.L.N. 22 Sep. 1860 p. 266, portrait; Engineering 25 June 1879 p. 78.
HODGES, Thomas Law (son of Thomas Hallett Hodges, d. 1801). b. 3 June 1776; major West Kent regiment of militia; M.P. for Kent 1830–32; for West Kent 1832–41 and 1847–52; author of Minutes of evidence before house of commons on emigration, and on state of the poor laws 1833; The use of Pearson’s drain plough 1833. d. Hemsted, Kent 14 May 1857.