Hugh Hodges

Hugh Hodges (1641 – 16 August 1693) MP JP was a lawyer and Member of Parliament for Bridport in the reign of James II.

Hodges was educated at Sherborne, of which he became a governor in 1669 and later a benefactor to the library, Queen's College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn.

[1] He was joint auditor of excise for Dorset in 1662, commissioner for recusants in 1675, and commissioner for rebels’ estates in Somerset and Dorset in 1685 along with his fellow Old Shirburnian and MP Thomas Wyndham.

[2] Hodges married Mary, daughter of John Eastmont of Sherborne, with whom he had one son who succeeded him.

He died on 16 August 1693 and was buried in Sherborne Abbey, the only member of his family to sit in Parliament.