Hodgkin family

He married Elizabeth Rickman (1768-1833) of a Sussex Quaker family and together they had four sons of whom the first two died in infancy[2] Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866), or "Uncle Doctor" as he was known to succeeding generations,[2][3] was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine.

Robert Howard Hodgkin (1877 – 1951) was an English historian of modern history and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

In 1940 he married Maria Clara Egle Laura (Mimi) Henderson (née Franceschi) and together they had one son and three grandchildren.

[5] Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 – 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.

Born in Madagascar as a descendant of the Pease family he studied malarial transmission in Malaysia, was a prisoner of war in Changi prison, and became the foremost expert on Western Australian river ecology and founded many of the Australian Quaker meeting houses and schools.

She is also the biographer of her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, who was the much-abused first wife of the writer Lawrence Durrell.