Hodgkin family

The Hodgkin family is a British Quaker family where several members have excelled in science, medicine, and arts.

The first famous member of the family was the grammarian and calligrapher John Hodgkin (1766–1845). His descendants include the physician Thomas Hodgkin (after whom Hodgkin's lymphoma was named), the historian Thomas Hodgkin (bearing the same name), and Nobel laureate physiologist Alan Hodgkin.

Family tree

For clarity, the tree does not include every family member. It is focused on the most prominent members and their direct ancestors and descendants, as well as those who, by marriage, connect the family to other prominent families or individuals.

Hodgkin family tree

John Hodgkin 1766-1845 Elizabeth Rickman John Hodgkin (died in infancy) Rickman Hodgkin (died in infancy) Thomas Hodgkin 1798–1866 John Hodgkin 1800–1875 Elizabeth Hodgkin (née Howard) 1803-1836 Sarah Ransome John Eliot Hodgkin 1829-1912 Thomas Hodgkin 1831–1913 Lucy Ann Hodgkin (née Fox) Mariabella Fry (née Hodgkin) 1833-1930 Edward Fry 1827-1918 Elizabeth Waterhouse (née Hodgkin) 1834-1918 Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905 Stanley Howard Hodgkin 1860-1945 Charles Ernest Hodgkin 1861-1951 8 more children Lucy Violet Hodgkin John Hodgkin Edward Hodgkin Elizabeth Hodgkin Ellen Sophie Hodgkin Robert Howard Hodgkin 1877-1951 Dorothy Forster Hodgkin (née Smith) George Hodgkin 1880-1918 Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1973 Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1987 Dorothy Hodgkin (née Crowfoot) 1910-1994 Thomas Lionel Hodgkin 1910–1982 Lawrence Durrell 1912-1990 Nancy Isobel Myers Edward Christian Hodgkin 1913-2006 Alan Hodgkin 1914–1998 Marni Hodgkin (née Rous) 1917-2015 Howard Hodgkin 1932-2017 Luke Hodgkin 1938-2020 Elizabeth Hodgkin 1941- Toby Hodgkin 1946- Joanna Hodgkin 1947- Jonathan Hodgkin 1949-

The first generation: John Hodgkin

John Hodgkin (1766–1845)

John Hodgkin (1766–1845) was an English tutor, grammarian, and calligrapher. He married Elizabeth Rickman (1768-1833) of a Sussex Quaker family and together they had four sons of whom the first two died in infancy

• John Hodgkin
• Rickman Hodgkin
• Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866)
• John Hodgkin (1800–1875)

The second generation

Thomas Hodgkin (physician)

Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866)

Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866), or "Uncle Doctor" as he was known to succeeding generations, was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. Hodgkin's lymphoma is named after him. In 1850 he married Sarah Frances Scaife, a widow, but the couple had no children.

John Hodgkin

John Hodgkin (1800-1875) was an English barrister and Quaker preacher. He was married three times. From his first marriage to Elizabeth Howard (daughter of the meteorologist and chemist Luke Howard) he had five children, including the historian Thomas Hodgkin

The third generation

Because John Hodgkin's first two sons died in infancy, and Thomas Hodgkin had no children, all members of the third generation were children of the younger John Hodgkin.

Thomas Hodgkin (historian)

Thomas Hodgkin (1831 – 1913) was a British historian and biographer. He is particularly known for his 8-volume magnum opus Italy and her Invaders. He married Lucy Ann Fox, daughter of Alfred Fox and had seven children with her. These include the historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and George Hodgkin, father to Nobel Laureate Alan Hodgkin.

The fourth generation

Robert Howard Hodgkin

Robert Howard Hodgkin (1877 – 1951) was an English historian of modern history and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was married to Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of fellow Oxford historian Arthur Smith and together they had a son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin.

Henry Theodore Hodgkin

Henry Hodgkin (1877-1933), son of John Hodgkin's son Jonathan Backhouse Hodgkin, was a medical doctor and a British Quaker missionary who, in the course of his 55-year life, co-founded the West China Union University in Chengdu, co-founded and led the first Christian pacifist movement, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and founded the Pendle Hill Quaker meeting and training center, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

The fifth generation

Eliot Hodgkin

Eliot Hodgkin (1905 – 1987) was an English painter, son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin , grandson of the engineer and antiquary John Eliot Hodgkin, and great-grandson of John Hodgkin. In 1940 he married Maria Clara Egle Laura (Mimi) Henderson (née Franceschi) and together they had one son and three grandchildren.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910 – 1982) was an English Marxist historian of Africa. He was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith. In 1937, he married the British chemist Dorothy Crowfoot (1910-1994) who, under the name Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Alan Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998)

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 – 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. He married Marion Rous in 1944, daughter of American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous, who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their son Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University.

Ernest Pease Hodgkin

Ernest Pease Hodgkin (1908 – 1998) was a renowned medical entomologist and marine biologist. Born in Madagascar as a descendant of the Pease family he studied malarial transmission in Malaysia, was a prisoner of war in Changi prison, and became the foremost expert on Western Australian river ecology and founded many of the Australian Quaker meeting houses and schools.

The sixth generation

Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin CH CBE (1932 – 2017) was a British painter.

Joanna Hodgkin

Joanna Hodgkin (born 1947) is a British novelist known primarily for mysteries who has published under both her maiden name Joanna Hodgkin and her married name Joanna Hines. She is also the biographer of her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, who was the much-abused first wife of the writer Lawrence Durrell.

Jonathan Hodgkin

Jonathan Alan Hodgkin (born 1949) is a British biochemist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, and an emeritus fellow of Keble College, Oxford.