Grosvenor Hodgkinson

Grosvenor Hodgkinson (1818 – 14 February 1881)[1] was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1874.

He was educated at the grammar school at Louth, and was admitted an attorney and solicitor in 1839.

[3] At the 1859 general election Hodgkinson was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark,[4] defeating the sitting Liberal MP the Earl of Lincoln.

[5] He was re-elected in 1865[6] and in 1868,[7] and held the seat until he stood down from Parliament at the 1874 general election.

Hodgkinson died on 15 February 1881, at his home in Newark, aged 62.