Career
Hodges joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia in 1887. Two years later, he was on 27 June 1902 posted to the HMS Duke of Wellington as flag lieutenant to the Board of Admiralty. He was appointed Commander of the cruiser HMS Sappho in 1905 and despatched to South Georgia to investigate the emerging whaling industry there.
In 1912 he became Naval Attaché in Paris.
In World War I he commanded the battlecruiser HMS Indomitable and then the new battlecruiser HMS Renown. In 1918 he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Second in Command of the Grand Fleet.
After the War he was made Rear Admiral Commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Atlantic Fleet. He became Naval Secretary in 1923, Commander of the 3rd Battle Squadron in April 1925 and Commander of the 1st Battle Squadron and Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in March 1926.
He was Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1927 to 1930 when, having been promoted to full admiral in 1929, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet in 1930.
lieutenant was at this time that the Invergordon Mutiny took place when sailors of the Atlantic Fleet rioted over pay although Hodges was in the Royal Hospital Haslar at Gosport and therefore not directly involved in resolving the crisis. He was relieved due to pleurisy and retired in 1932. During World World War II he was re-employed as Flag Officer in Charge in Trinidad, West Indies.
In retirement he became Chairman of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society.
