He was created a baronet in the 1921 New Year Honours for his company's services during the First World War,[2][3] despite a conviction in 1918 for "food hoarding". The Hodges were fined £600 and £100 costs for hoarding over a ton of food.[4]
Personal life
On 28 March 1895, Hodge was married to Mabel Thorpe, a daughter of William Edward Thorpe. Before her death in 1923, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters, including:[5]
Margaret Viola Hodge (b. 1908), who married Jorge Yvan Lage, son of Jorge Lage, in 1927. She married Sir Robert Spencer Isaacson in 1938.[5]
Vivien Rosemary Hodge (b. 1911), who married St. John Legh Clowes, son of Capt. Phillip Cecil Clowes, in 1930. They divorced and she married Hugh Gordon Murton-Neale in 1941.[5]
Sir John Rowland, 2nd Baronet (1913–1995), who married Peggy Ann Kent, daughter of Sidney Raymond Kent, in 1936.[6] They divorced in 1939 and he married Joan Wilson, daughter of Sydney Foster Wilson, in 1939. They divorced in 1961 and he married Jeanne Wood Anderson Buchanan, daughter of Commander W. E. Buchanan, in 1962. The divorced in 1967 and he married Vivienne Knightley, daughter of Alfred Knightley, in 1967.[5]
Peter Rowland Hodge (1915–1982), who married Mia Macklin, daughter of Sir Noel Macklin, in 1940.[7] They divorced in 1945 and he married Margaret Norma Plow, daughter of Harold Plow, in 1951.[5]
The programme reported that the archives of Parliament contain letters to Lloyd George, from Winston Churchill complaining of having been offered a bribe of £5,000, and from King George V complaining of the honour having been granted.[4]