Background
Hodgkinson was the son of George Hodgkinson and his wife Julia Beevor, daughter of the Review
Hodgkinson was the son of George Hodgkinson and his wife Julia Beevor, daughter of the Review
He was educated at the grammar school at Louth, and was admitted an attorney and solicitor in 1839.
Beevor, Rector of Claypole, Lincolnshire. He was in practice at Newark, in partnership with J. T. B. Pratt, but gave up his legal practice in 1870. He was a director of the Law Life Assurance Company and the Midland Railway Company and chairman of the London Chatham and Dover Railway.
He was also a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for Newark and Nootinghamshire.
He was re-elected in 1865 and in 1868, and held the seat until he stood down from Parliament at the 1874 general election. Hodgkinson died on 15 February 1881, at his home in Newark, aged 62.
Hodgkinson married Alice Harvey, daughter of Robert Harvey of Balderton in 1845.
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At the 1859 general election Hodgkinson was elected as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Newark, defeating the sitting Liberal Member of Parliament the Earl of Lincoln.