Hodgkin was son of John Hodgkin,[3] 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.
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. His magnum opus,Italy and Her Invaders,was published in eight volumes.[6] He died at Falmouth[7] on 2 March 1913. His and the Hodgkin family papers are held at the Wellcome Library in London.[8]
George (1880–1918) married Mary Wilson. Their son,Alan Hodgkin,received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
Lucy Violet Hodgkin,later Holdsworth,was a writer and gave the 1919 Swarthmore Lecture under the title Silent Worship:The way of wonder. She assembled her father's letters and wrote a memorial to her brother,George,published in 1923.[11]
Ellen Sophia,later Bosanquet,wrote an autobiography,published by her daughter Diana Hardman,as Late Harvest:Memories,letters poems.
Publications
Hodgkin's chief works are:
Italy and her Invaders (8 vols.,Oxford,1880–1899;vols. I,II,1890,(revised 1892),vols. III,IV,1892 (rev 1896),vols. V,VI,1895,vols. VII,VIII,1899);republished as The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire,(8 vols.,The Folio Society,2001) [2]
An introduction to the Letters of Cassiodorus:being a condensed translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus,Senator (London,1886).[13]
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).[6]
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