Name Thomas Hodgkin | Role Historian | |
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Died March 2, 1913, Falmouth, United Kingdom Books Theodoric The Goth, Huns - Vandals - and the F, The History of England from the, Italy and Her Invaders, The Life of Charlemagne (Charles t | ||
Thomas Hodgkin (29 July 1831 – 2 March 1913) was a British historian and biographer.
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Biography
Hodgkin was son of John Hodgkin, barrister and Quaker minister, and Elizabeth Howard (daughter of Luke Howard).
In 1861 he married Lucy Ann (1841–1934) (daughter of Alfred Fox who created Glendurgan Garden and Sarah, born Lloyd, his wife). They had three sons and three daughters
Having been educated as a member of the Society of Friends and taken the degree of B.A. at the University of London, he became a partner in the banking house of Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease and Spence, Newcastle-on-Tyne, a firm afterwards amalgamated with Lloyds Bank.
While continuing in business as a banker, Hodgkin devoted a good deal of time to historical study, and soon became a leading authority on the history of the early Middle Ages, his books being indispensable to all students of this period. He died on 2 March 1913. His and the Hodgkin family papers are held at the Wellcome Library in London
Family
The family of Thomas and Lucy Hodgkin is listed as:
Their daughter, Lucy Violet Hodgkin, later Holdsworth, (1869–1954) was a writer and gave the 1919 Swarthmore Lecture under the title Silent Worship : The way of wonder.
Their daughter, Ellen Sophia Bosanquet wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems.
L.V.Hodgkin assembled his letters and wrote a memorial to her brother, George, published in 1923
Publications
His chief works are:
He also wrote a Life of Charles the Great (London, 1897); Life of George Fox (Boston, 1896); and the opening volume of Longman's Political History of England (London, 1906).