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'''Francis Lord Charlton Hodson, Baron Hodson'''
(17 September 1895 – 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>
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The son of [[Reverend|Rev.]] Thomas Hodson, he was born in [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], and educated in [[Cheltenham College]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]]. During the [[First World War]] he served with the 7th Battalion, [[Gloucestershire Regiment]], being wounded several times and receiving a [[Military Cross]] 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 studying and was [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar]] by the [[Inner Temple]] in 1921. He was made a [[King's Counsel]] in 1937 and appointed to the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] the same year, receiving the customary knighthood shortly after. Aged
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>
He retired as Lord of Appeal in 1971. Hodson was a member of the [[International Court of Arbitration]] at [[The Hague]] between 1949 and 1971 and further president of the British branch of the [[International Law Association]]. 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" />
==Personal life==
In 1918, Hodson married Susan Mary Blake, daughter of Major W.G. Blake. Susan had been his nurse during the war.<ref name=daught>Victor Morrison, ‘Joseph , Anthea Esther (1924–1981)’, rev. 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/|accessdate=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.<ref name="times"/>
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