Henry Vincent Hodson (12 May 1906 – 26 March 1999) was an English economist and editor.

Career

Hodson was born in

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. He was educated at

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, Holt, and

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, becoming a Fellow of

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, in 1928. He was later a member of the Economic Advisory Council and Editor of '' The Round Table'' from 1934–1939. He was Director of the Empire Division of the Ministry of Information from 1939 to 1941, then became Reforms Commissioner of the Government of India. Returning to England in 1942, he was made Principal Assistant Secretary and later Head of Non-Munitions, at the Ministry of Broadcast until 1945. At the end of the

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, he returned to journalism, becoming assistant editor of

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, and was editor from 1950 until 1961. He was editor of

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from 1973 until his retirement in 1988. He died on 26 March 1999. From 1927, Hodson was a freeman of the

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by right of patrimony. In 1964, he was Master of the company. He was made Provost of the

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in 1961. He was on the governing body of

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from 1972–1986.

Personal life

In 1933 he married Margaret Elizabeth Honey. He died in Kensington and Chelsea,

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in 1999, aged 92.Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006
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Publications

Hodson's publications include: *''Economics of a Changing World'' (1933), *''The Empire in the World'' (1937), *''Slump and Recovery'' (1929, revised 1937 and 1938), *''The British Commonwealth and the Future'' (1939), *''Twentieth Century Empire'' (1948), *''Problems of Anglo-American Relations'' (1963), *'' The Great Divide: Britain-India-Pakistan'' (1969), and *''The Diseconomics of Growth'' (1972).

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1906 births 1999 deaths Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British male journalists Editors of the Round Table Journal Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford People educated at Gresham's School 20th-century British economists Governors of Abingdon School {{UK-journalist-stub