John Hodge (politician)

Hodge helped form the British Steel Smelters' Association in 1885, of which he would be elected secretary, after bosses at Colville in Motherwell informed workers that their wages would be twenty per cent lower than before.

Hodge also helped form the Associated Society of Millmen, acting as its secretary and treasurer for a year before its members could hold an election.

[4] From August 1917 to January 1919, Hodge was Minister of Pensions in the Lloyd George Coalition Government.

In 1919 he appeared in the film Broken in the Wars directed by Cecil Hepworth to advertise a fund set up for ex-servicemen.

Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, who served under Hodge, called him a "fat, rampaging and most patriotic Tory working man".