John Hodgkins
John Hodgkins DD was an English suffragan bishop.Biography
Educated at Cambridge, Hodgkins was appointed Bishop of Bedford under the provisions of the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 in 1537 and held the post until 1560. From 1527 he was the Provincial of the English Dominicans and Prior of Sudbury. He was consecrated bishop on December 9 1537 by John Stokesley of London, Robert Parfew of St Asaph and John Hilsey of Rochester, two of whom were Roman Catholic prelates recognized by the Pope.
