He was the third son of Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont and Alicia Maria, daughter of the 2nd Baron Carpenter, and brother of Hon.
[2] Wyndham gave up the Midhurst seat in 1795, shortly before his brother sold it, in order to sit for New Shoreham.
[3][4] Hodges claimed he had been long separated from his wife on suspicion of her adultery, after which point she became pregnant.
During the trial, which happened in Westminster in February 1791 before Lord Kenyon, Mrs Hodges was confirmed to be pregnant and living with the defendant.
However it was argued that the plaintiff had not only known about the affair, but had prostituted his wife to a Mr Bouvier, and the Prince of Wales (later George IV) as early as 1784.