[2] Hodgson-Hinde made his first foray into local politics in 1828, engaging as an opponent of the proposed route of the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, while advocating the Scotswood Bridge.
Two days later, he received a further dressing down from Home Office undersecretary of state George Lamb and anti-reformers John Wilson Croker and Charles Wetherell for presenting a similar motion on local enrolment fees.
Yet, Newcastle barrister James Losh informed Lord Chancellor Brougham that Hodgson-Hinde claimed "he was one of the 20 Members who would be content to give up all opposition to what is called disfranchisement, provided persons now apprentices and the sons of freemen above 15 years of age were allowed to vote [for] life".
[2][3] In that same year, he brought petitions from "free brothers" of Morpeth and Manchester criticising the government the reform bill's details, but then divided for its second reading and against adjournment.
In the same month, he divided for the revised reform bill at its second reading and then steadily for its details for the remainder of the year—also continuing to advocate the enfranchisement of Gateshead, South Shields and Whitby into 1832.
[2] In 1831, Hodgson-Hinde also backed various votes on reducing public salaries to 1797 levels, against the civil servant grant, and against compensating black men, Louis Celeste Lecesne and John Escoffery, after they were deported from Jamaica.
[2] After a difficult canvas, during which he refused to support the ballot and his stance on corn law reform and the Bank of England's monopoly were major issues, Hodgson-Hinde was re-elected as a "self-declared Liberal", but nominally a Tory, at the 1832 general election.
[4][2][3] Hodgson-Hinde had moved with his mother to Stelling Hall, near Hexham, the former estate of Elizabeth Archer Hinde, having proven to have taken the additional surname of 'Hinde', also purchasing the remaining sixth of the state.
He spent the next few years publishing a range of papers on antiquarian studies, including:[2] He also regularly contributed to the transactions of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, of which he was vice-president, before his death intestate and without any issue in 1869.