Sir Rowland Frederick William (1st Baronet) Hodge

1859 - 1950  (91 years)

• Name	Rowland Frederick William (1st Baronet) Hodge
  Prefix	Sir
  Birth	Sep 1859	Sunderland, Cumberland, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Sep 1950
  Person ID	I77527	First tree
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2015

  
  

• Notes

  He was an English shipbuilder. Hodge was born in Sunderland, the son of John Rowland Hodge and Emily (née Davis). He entered the shipbuilding industry and later founded his own company, the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, of which he was managing director for more than twenty years. He was also chairman of Eltringhams Ltd, another shipbuilder. He was created a Baronet in the 1921 New Year Honours for his company's services during the First World War, despite a conviction in 1918 for "food hoarding". The Hodges were fined £600 and £100 costs for hoarding over a tonne in food. The BBC programme Who Do You Think You Are? broadcast on 24 September 2008, in which model Jodie Kidd traced her ancestors (Hodge was her great-grandfather), suggested that he may have bought his honour from David Lloyd George, part of the scandal that led to the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.