{{Short description|British bishop}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Austin Hodson | title = Bishop of Tewkesbury | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | diocese = Diocese of Gloucester | term = 1938–1955 | successor = Edward Henderson | other_post = {{unbulleted list|Canon of Gloucester {{nowrap|(1934–1961)}}|Archdeacon of Gloucester {{nowrap|(1938–1948)}}}} <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1906 (deacon); 1908 (priest) | ordained_by = Edgar Gibson (Gloucester) | consecration = 1938 | consecrated_by = Cosmo Lang (Canterbury) <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_date = {{birth date|1879|5|6|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|1|28|1879|5|6|df=y}} | death_place = | buried = | nationality = British | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = John & Annie | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | education = | alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford }} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Portal|Christianity}} '''Augustine John Hodson''' (called Austin;<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=040-gdr_6&cid=8#8 National Archives — Bishops of Tewkesbury]</ref> 6 May 1879{{snd}}28 January 1961)<ref>''Augustine Hodson.'' The Times (London, England), Monday, 30 January 1961; p. 12; Issue 54992</ref> was the first Bishop of Tewkesbury (suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester) from 1938<ref>''Ecclesiastical News. Bishop of Tewkesbury consecrated'' The Times (London, England), Saturday, 26 February 1938; p. 14; Issue 47929</ref> until his resignation in 1955.<ref>''Resignation of the Bishop of Tewsbury'' The Times, Tuesday, 29 March 1955; p. 8; Issue 53200C; col. D</ref>
Son of John and Annie, Hodson was educated at Lichfield Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He studied for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford, and never married.<ref name="ww">{{Who's Who | title=Hodson, Augustine John | id = U54027 | type = was | volume = 1920–2016 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 30 May 2017 }}</ref>
He was made deacon in Advent 1906 (23 December), by Edgar Gibson, Bishop of Gloucester, at Gloucester Cathedral,<ref>{{Church Times | title = The Ordinations on Sunday last | archive = 1906_12_28_837 | issue = 2292 | date = 28 December 1906 | page = 837 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }}</ref> and ordained priest in 1908, serving his curacy at All Saints', Cheltenham. Between 1911 and 1915 he was Assistant Missioner to the Gloucester Diocesan Mission before serving Leckhampton as curate-in-charge (1915–1921);<ref name="ww" /> during the latter he was also a temporary chaplain<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P46080 Reference in National archives]</ref> (1918–1920). He had been interviewed by the Chaplain-General in July 1918, was described as 'Dark, keen... good' and sent to France to work in a Casualty Clearing Station.<ref>Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy</ref> Before he was demobilised, it was reported, 'Has done good work as hospital chaplain in spite of rather poor health'.<ref>TNA WO374/33968</ref> He moved in 1921 to become Vicar of Chalford, then of Wotton-under-Edge from 1924.<ref name="ww" />
Hodson departed Wotton in 1934 to become a canon residentiary of Gloucester Cathedral, in which post he remained until death. During that time, he was Archdeacon of Gloucester (1938–1948) and Bishop of Tewkesbury — the first suffragan bishop of the diocese (1938–1955).<ref name="ww" /> He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1938<ref>[https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20141101224038/http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='GDR') Records of the Diocese of Gloucester] (Retrieved 22 December 2015)</ref> (the Feast of St Matthias), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace chapel;<ref>{{Church Times | title = Bishop of Tewkesbury consecrated. In Lambeth Palace Chapel. | archive = 1938_03_04_243 | issue = 3919 | date = 4 March 1938 | page = 243 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }}</ref> and resigned the See effective 31 March 1955.<ref>{{Church Times | title = Bishop of Tewkesbury | archive = 1955_01_21_001 | issue = 4798 | date = 21 January 1955 | page = 1 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }}</ref> His younger brother was Robert, Bishop suffragan of Shrewsbury.<ref>{{Church Times | title = in memoriam: Bishop Robert Hodson | archive = 1960_01_15_008 | issue = 5057 | date = 15 January 1960 | page = 8 | accessed = 6 February 2021 }}</ref>
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