Thomas Hodgkin (historian)


Thomas Hodgkin, FBA was a British historian and biographer.
A Quaker minister and banker, Hodgkin, as an amateur historian produced his magnum opus, a history of the wars of the late Roman Empire.

Biography

Hodgkin was son of John Hodgkin, barrister and Quaker minister, and Elizabeth Howard.
In 1861 he married Lucy Ann . They had three sons and three daughters
Having been educated as a member of the Society of Friends and taken the degree of B.A. at the University of London, he became a partner in the banking house of Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease and Spence, Newcastle-on-Tyne, a firm afterwards amalgamated with Lloyds 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 early Middle Ages, his books. His magnum opus became Italy and her Invaders, published in eight volumes.
He died at Falmouth on 2 March 1913. His and the Hodgkin family papers are held at the Wellcome Library in London.

Family

The family of Thomas and Lucy Hodgkin is listed as:
Lucy Violet Hodgkin, later Holdsworth, was a writer and gave the 1919 Swarthmore Lecture under the title Silent Worship: The way of wonder.
L.V. Hodgkin assembled her father's letters and wrote a memorial to her brother, George, published in 1923
Their daughter, Ellen Sophia Bosanquet wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems.

Publications

His chief works are:
He also wrote a Life of Charles the Great ; Life of George Fox ; and the opening volume of Longman's Political History of England.