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{{Short description|British judge}}
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'''Francis Lord Charlton Hodson, Baron Hodson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PC|MC}}
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(17 September 1895 &ndash; 11 March 1984), known as '''Charles Hodson''' until 1960, was a [[United Kingdom|British]] judge.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title=Lord Hodson: Former Lord of Appeal |work=[[The Times]] |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page= 18 |date=14 March 1984 }}</ref>▼
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Hodson
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MC|PC}}
| image = Charles Hodson, Baron Hodson.jpg
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| caption = Hodson in 1954, by [[Walter Stoneman]]
| order =
| office = [[Lords of Appeal in Ordinary]]
| birth_name = Francis Lord Charlton Hodson
| birth_date = 17 September 1895
| birth_place = [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|3|11|1895|9|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Goring-on-Thames]], [[South Oxfordshire]]
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| nationality = English
| spouse = {{marriage|Susan Mary Blake|1918|1965|end=d}}
| children = 3, including [[Anthea Joseph]]
| education = [[Cheltenham College]]
| alma_mater = [[Wadham College, Oxford]]
| occupation = Judge
| awards =
| nickname =
| allegiance = [[United Kingdom]]
| branch = [[British Army]]
| serviceyears = 1915–1919
| rank = Captain
| unit = [[Gloucestershire Regiment]]
| commands =
| battles = [[First World War]]
| office1 = [[Lord Justice of Appeal]]
| termstart = 1 October 1960
| termstart1 = 15 January 1951
| termend = 1971
| termend1 = 1 October 1960
| termstart2 = 1937
| termend2 = 1951
| office2 = [[High Court judge (England and Wales)|Justice of the High Court]]
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▲'''Francis Lord Charlton Hodson, Baron Hodson''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC|PC|sep=,|size=100%}} (17 September 1895 &ndash; 11 March 1984), also known as '''Charles Hodson''' until 1960, was a British judge who served as [[UnitedLord Kingdom|Britishof Appeal in Ordinary]] judgefrom 1960 to 1971.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title=Lord Hodson: Former Lord of Appeal |work=[[The Times]] |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |page= 18 |date=14 March 1984 }}</ref>
 
==Biography==
TheCharles, as he was always known, was the son of [[Reverend|Rev.]] Thomas Hodson, rector of [[Oddington, Gloucestershire|Oddington]], [[Gloucestershire]], and Catherine Anne (''née'' Maskew), he was born in [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], and educated inat [[Cheltenham College]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]].<ref Duringname="times"/><ref thename=":0">{{Cite [[FirstODNB|id=31243|title=Hodson, WorldFrancis War]]Lord he served with the 7th Battalion,Charlton [[Gloucestershire Regiment]Charles], beingBaron woundedHodson|last=Devlin|authorlink=Patrick severalDevlin, timesBaron and receiving a [[Military Cross]] with the following citation:Devlin}}</ref>
 
His university studies were interrupted by the [[First World War]], during which he served with the 7th Battalion, [[Gloucestershire Regiment]] in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, being wounded several times. He received the [[Military Cross]] for his action during the [[Siege of Kut]] with the following citation:
 
<blockquote>For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his company most gallantly against a strong enemy redoubt, being twice wounded, and refused to be brought in till the wounded round him had been evacuated.</blockquote>
 
After the war, Hodson finished his studyingstudies and was [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar]] by the [[Inner Temple]] in 1921. He initially practiced at the common law bar, but switched to the divorce bar, then thought of as a dead end because of financial reasons. At the time, judges of the [[Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division]] were inevitable drawn from the admiralty bar. However, in 1937, the impending passage of the [[Matrimonial Causes Act 1937|Matrimonial Causes Bill]] and the projected rise in the number of divorce cases made the appointment of a divorce specialist to the bench inevitable. As a consequence, that year, he was made a [[King's Counsel]] inat 1937the andLord Chancellor's invitation, was appointed to the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] theshortly same yearafter, receivingand received the customary knighthood[[Knight shortly afterBachelor|knighthood]]. Aged 42, he was the youngest High Court judge ever appointed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB|id=31243|title=Hodson, Francis Lord Charlton [Charles], Baron Hodson|last=Devlin|authorlink=Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin}}</ref>
 
He was [[Lord Justice of Appeal]] from 1951 to 1960, and was sworn in the [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]] in 1951. On 1 October 1960, he was appointed [[Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]] and was created a [[life peer]] with the title '''Baron Hodson''', of Rotherfield Greys in the County of [[Oxfordshire|Oxford]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=42159 |date= 4 October 1960 | page=6701|endpage= |supp=}}</ref>
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Of his legacy, [[Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin|Lord Devlin]] wrote that "Hodson's thirty-four years of judicial service left little or no mark on the law. He took the law as he found it, whether he liked it or not."<ref name=":0" />
 
==Selected judgments==
In [[Shaw v DPP]], (1961) UKHL 1 rendered on 4 May 1961, Lord Hodson said,
{{cquote|I am wholly satisfied that there is a common law misdemeanour of conspiracy to corrupt public morals. The judicial precedents which have been cited show conclusively to my mind that the Courts have never abandoned their function as ''[[custodes morum]]'' by surrendering to the Legislature the right and duty to apply established principles to new combinations of circumstances.}}
 
==Personal life==
In 1918, Hodson married Susan Mary Blake, daughter of Major W.G.William Greaves Blake. Susan had been his nurse during the war.<ref name=daught>Victor Morrison, ‘Joseph{{Cite ODNB|id=31211|title=Joseph, Anthea Esther (1924–1981)’,|first=Victor rev.|last=Morrison Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31211, accessed 9 April 2017]}}</ref> They had three children. Their daughter, the Hon. [[Anthea Joseph]], became a prominent publisher. Their elder son, Lt. Hubert Blake Hodson, was killed in action in Libya on 22 January 1941 while serving with the [[9th Queen's Royal Lancers]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hodson, Hubert Blake : Winchester College at War|url=http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/hodson-hubert-blake/|accessdateaccess-date=21 June 2017|publisher=Winchester College at War|}}</ref> The younger son, Hon. Charles Christopher Philip Hodson, married Rose Markham, daughter of [[Markham baronets|Sir Charles Markham, 2nd Baronet]], in 1953.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=2619 |pages= |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>
 
Lady Hodson died in 1965. Lord Hodson died in 1984 at a nursing home in [[Goring-on-Thames]].<ref name="times"/><ref name=":0"/>
 
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