# Luke Hodges

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'''Luke Hodges''' was an English politician who sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_England)  from 1646 to 1653. He supported the [Parliamentary](/source/Roundheads) cause in the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War).

Hodges was the [Sheriff of Bristol](/source/High_Sheriff_of_Bristol) in the year 1638. In 1643, he was appointed to the parliamentary committee to assess [Bristol](/source/Bristol) and was restored to his position as common [councillor](/source/councillor) for Bristol by the parliament in 1645.<ref name=Williams>[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494953#page/n125/mode/2up W R Williams ''Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester'']</ref> In January 1646, he was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for Bristol in the [Long Parliament](/source/Long_Parliament) and sat until 1653.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref> In 1649 he was one of the members given instructions for the preservation of timber in the [Forest of Dean](/source/Forest_of_Dean). He became a militia commissioner for Bristol in 1655.<ref name=Williams/>

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| title=[Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [Bristol](/source/Bristol_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) 
| before= [John Glanville](/source/John_Glanville) 
| before2= John Tailer
| with= [Richard Aldworth](/source/Richard_Aldworth_(MP_for_Bristol))
| years=1646–1653
| after= Not represented in [Barebones Parliament](/source/Barebones_Parliament)
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