{{Short description|British bishop (1885 – 1960)}} {{other people}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Robert Hodson | title = Bishop of Shrewsbury | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | diocese = Diocese of Lichfield | elected = | term = 1944{{snd}}1959 (ret.) | enthroned = | quashed = | term_end = | predecessor = Eric Hamilton | opposed = | successor = William Parker | other_post = {{unbulleted list|Archdeacon of Stafford and Canon of Lichfield {{nowrap|(1935–1944)}}}} <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1908 (deacon) | ordained_by = Augustus Legge (Lichfield) | consecration = 1944 | consecrated_by = Geoffrey Fisher (London) <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1885|3|30|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1960|1|8|1885|3|30|df=y}} | death_place = | buried = | nationality = British | religion = Anglican | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | education = | alma_mater = St Edmund Hall, Oxford }} '''Robert Leighton Hodson''' (30 March 1885{{snd}}8 January 1960) was the third Bishop of Shrewsbury in the modern era.<ref>''Bishop Of Shrewsbury To Retire'' The Times Wednesday, May 13, 1959; pg. 10; Issue 54459; col C</ref>
Son of John Humphries Hodson and his wife Annie, he was educated at Berkhamsted School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford,<ref name=www>“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> graduating as Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in 1907 and Master of Arts (M.A.) in 1911. He trained for the Church of England ministry at Lichfield Theological College, which he entered in 1907. He was made deacon in Advent 1908 (20 December), by Augustus Legge, Bishop of Lichfield, at Lichfield Cathedral<ref>{{Church Times | title = The Ordinations | archive = 1908_12_24_863 | issue = 2396 | date = 24 December 1908 | page = 863 | accessed = 12 March 2021 }}</ref> and Priest in 1910 by the Bishop of Lichfield.<ref name=crockford>{{cite book|title=Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1959-1960|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=1060}}</ref> He was successively Curate at St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton,<ref>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Wolverhampton/StPeter/index.html Genuki details]</ref> 1908 to 1912, and of Stavanton with Boddington, Gloucestershire, 1912 to 1917, Vicar of St Stephen's, Cheltenham, 1917 to 1925, Vicar of St Giles, Willenhall, Staffordshire, 1925 to 1928, Rector of St Peter's and Rural Dean of Wolverhampton from 1929 to 1935 and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate in 1944) Archdeacon of Stafford from 1935.<ref name=crockford/> Later in World War I he was a Temporary Chaplain of the Forces over 1918–19.<ref name=crockford/> He held several positions at Lichfield Cathedral as Treasurer (1935–36), Canon (1935–44) and Precentor (1936–44); and served as a Proctor in Convocation (1932–35).<ref name=crockford/>
He was consecrated bishop at Michaelmas (29 September) 1944, by Geoffrey Fisher, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral;<ref>{{Church Times | title = A suffragan bishop's task. Consecration at St Paul's | archive = 1944_10_06_531 | issue = 4263 | date = 6 October 1944 | page = 531 | accessed = 11 March 2021 }}</ref> to serve as Bishop suffragan of Shrewsbury. During his episcopate he concurrently served as Provost of Denstone College from 1949.<ref name=crockford/>
Hodson married in 1913 Margery Gertrude Corker; the couple had one son and two daughters.<ref name=www/> His elder brother was Austin, Bishop suffragan of Tewkesbury.<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>
He retired in October 1959<ref name=www/><ref>''Obituary, Rt. Rev. R. L. Hodson '' The Times Saturday, Jan 09, 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54664; col B</ref> and moved to Llanfairfechan in north Wales, but died less than three months later, aged 74.<ref name=www/>
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