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Edward Noel Hodges (1849 – 18 May 1928) was an Anglican bishop.[1]
Edward Noel Hodges was born in 1849 in Old Dalby, Leicestershire, England, the fourth son and the sixth of nine children of Abraham Hodges (1819-1910) and Jane née Rule (1808-1902). He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford[2] and ordained in 1873.[3] He was a Tutor at the Mission College, Islington from 1873 to 1877. After this he was Principal of Noble College, Masulipatam ; and after that of Trinity College, Kandy. In 1890, he became Bishop of Travancore and Cochin,[4] and was installed at the pro-cathedral in Kottayam during November that year.[5]
Returning to England in 1904,[6] he was an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Durham from 1904 to 1907;[7] and in the Diocese of Ely from then [8] until 1914. He was Rector of St Cuthbert's, Bedford[9] from 1907 to 1916; Archdeacon of Bedford from 1910 to [10] 1914; and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of St Albans from 1914 to his retirement in 1924.
On 30 June 1877 he married Alice Mary Gordon Shirref (1850-1939) at St. Jude's Church in South Kensington. They had two daughters: Marion Edith (b.1888) and Sybil (b.1889). Hodges died on 18 May 1928 in Bromley, Kent at the age of 79.
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