Thomas Hodgkin (historian)

For his grandson, also a historian, seeThomas Lionel Hodgkin.

Thomas Hodgkin FBA
Born	29 July 1831 Tottenham,United Kingdom
Died	2 March 1913 Falmouth,United Kingdom
Children	7, includingRobert
Parent	John Hodgkin(father)
Relatives	Hodgkin family
Academic background
Education	University College London University of Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	University College London Durham University
Main interests	Roman Empire Medieval philosophy
Notable works	Italy and Her Invaders

Thomas Hodgkin,FBA(29 July 1831 – 2 March 1913)was a Britishhistorian,biographer,banker, andQuakerminister. Hodgkin'smagnum opus,Italy and Her Invaders,was an eight-volume work on the history of the wars in theLate Roman Empire.

Biography

Hodgkin was son ofJohn Hodgkin,barrister andQuaker minister,and Elizabeth Howard (daughter ofLuke Howard). In 1861 he married Lucy Ann (1841–1934) (daughter of Alfred Fox who createdGlendurgan Gardenand Sarah, born Lloyd, his wife). They had three sons and three daughters.

Having been educated as a member of theSociety of Friendsand taken the degree of B.A. atUniversity College Londonand obtained the additional degrees of D.C.L and Litt. D.,likely at theUniversity of Oxford.He became a partner in the banking house of Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease and Spence,Newcastle-on-Tyne,a firm afterwards amalgamated withLloyds Bank.

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 earlyMiddle Ages,his books. His magnum opus,Italy and Her Invaders,was published in eight volumes. He died at Falmouthon 2 March 1913. His and the Hodgkin family papers are held at theWellcome Libraryin London.

Family

See also:Hodgkin family

The family of Thomas and Lucy Hodgkin is listed as:

• Lucy Violet (1869–1954) married John Holdsworth
• John (died in infancy)
• Edward (1872–1921) married Katie Wilson
• Elizabeth, known as Lily (born 1874) marriedHerbert Gresford Jones
• Ellen Sophie (1875–1965) marriedRobert Carr Bosanquet
• Robert Howard(24 April 1877 – 28 June 1951) married Dorothy Smith. He was Provost ofThe Queen's College, Oxford,author ofA History of the Anglo-Saxons(1935)
• 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 1919Swarthmore Lectureunder the titleSilent Worship: The way of wonder. She assembled her father's letters and wrote a memorial to her brother, George, published in 1923.

Ellen Sophia, later Bosanquet, wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter Diana Hardman, asLate 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 asThe Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire,(8 vols., The Folio Society, 2001)
• The Dynasty ofTheodosius(Oxford, 1889);
• Theodoric the Goth(London, 1891);
• An introduction to theLetters ofCassiodorus:being a condensed translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Senator(London, 1886).

He also wrote aLife of Charles the Great(London, 1897);Life ofGeorge Fox(Boston, 1896); and the opening volume ofLongman's Political History of England(London, 1906).

External links

• Works by Thomas HodgkinatProject Gutenberg
• Works by or about Thomas HodgkinatInternet Archive
• Works by Thomas HodgkinatLibriVox(public domain audiobooks)
• Portrait stored at the National Portrait Gallery