Sir Rowland Frederick William Hodge, 1st Baronet (15 September 1859 – 21 September 1950) was an
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shipbuilder
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.
Early life
Hodge was born on 15 September 1859 in
Sunderland
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, the son of Emily (née Davis) Hodge and John Rowland Hodge of
Newcastle upon Tyne
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. He was educated at
Houghton-le-Spring
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.
Career
He entered the shipbuilding industry and later founded his own company, the
Northumberland Shipbuilding Company
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History
The company was established by Harry S. Edwards in Howdon in 1883. Following the death of the founder the business was bought by Rowlan ...
, of which he was
managing director
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for more than twenty years. He was also chairman of Eltringhams Ltd, another shipbuilder, and a director of the
Canning Town Glass Works in London.
He was created a
baronet
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in the 1921 New Year Honours for his company's services during the
First World War
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, despite a conviction in 1918 for "food hoarding". The Hodges were fined £600 and £100 costs for hoarding over a ton of food.
Personal life
On 28 March 1895, Hodge was married to Mabel Thorpe, a daughter of William Edward Thorpe. Before her death in 1923, they were the parents of two sons and two daughters, including:
* Margaret Viola Hodge (b. 1908), who married Jorge Yvan Lage, son of Jorge Lage, in 1927. She married Sir Robert Spencer Isaacson in 1938.
* Vivien Rosemary Hodge (b. 1911), who married
St. John Legh Clowes, son of Capt. Phillip Cecil Clowes, in 1930. They divorced and she married Hugh Gordon Murton-Neale in 1941.
*
Sir John Rowland, 2nd Baronet (1913–1995), who married Peggy Ann Kent, daughter of Sidney Raymond Kent, in 1936.
They divorced in 1939 and he married Joan Wilson, daughter of Sydney Foster Wilson, in 1939. They divorced in 1961 and he married Jeanne Wood Anderson Buchanan, daughter of Commander W. E. Buchanan, in 1962. The divorced in 1967 and he married Vivienne Knightley, daughter of Alfred Knightley, in 1967.
* Peter Rowland Hodge (1915–1982), who married Mia Macklin, daughter of
Sir Noel Macklin, in 1940. They divorced in 1945 and he married Margaret Norma Plow, daughter of Harold Plow, in 1951.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' ]Wilmington, Delaware
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, U.S.A.
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: Burke's Peerage
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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 1932.
On 30 September 1930, seventy-one year old Sir Rowland was married to
Vera Estelle Cathcart, Countess Cathcart, former wife of the
George Cathcart, 5th Earl Cathcart
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Early life
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, at the Princess Row Register Office in London.
The wedding ceremony was followed by a reception at
Grosvenor House
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and a wedding trip to
Paris
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and
Monte Carlo
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.
In November 1934, Lady Hodge asked for a divorce,
but a court and jury refused to grant Vera a divorce from Sir Rowland on the grounds of misconduct.
Sir Rowland died at his home in
Churt
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,
Surrey
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on 23 September 1950.
Descendants
Through his eldest son,
he was a grandfather of
Sir Andrew Rowland Hodge, 3rd Baronet (b. 1968), Wendy Madeleine Hodge (second wife of
John Kidd, and mother of
Jemma Wellesley, Countess of Mornington
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, supermodel
Jodie Kidd
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and polo player Jack Kidd),
Vicki Hodge (one-time girlfriend of both
John Bindon
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and
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
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), and model
Sally Joan Hodge
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(mother of
Anthony Joseph Hodge Clavien and
Alana Nicole Hodge Sindelar).
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traced her ancestors (Hodge was her great-grandfather), suggested that he may have bought his honour from
.
The programme reported that the archives of Parliament contain letters to Lloyd George, from
complaining of the honour having been granted.