Noel Hodges

Edward Noel Hodges (1849 – 18 May 1928) was an Anglican bishop.

[1] Edward Noel Hodges was born in 1849 in Old Dalby, Leicestershire, England, the fourth son and the sixth of nine children of Abraham Hodges (1819-1910) and Jane née Rule (1808-1902).

In 1890, he became Bishop of Travancore and Cochin,[4] and was installed at the pro-cathedral in Kottayam during November that year.

He was Rector of St Cuthbert's, Bedford[9] from 1907 to 1916; Archdeacon of Bedford from 1910 to [10] 1914; and an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of St Albans from 1914 to his retirement in 1924.

On 30 June 1877 he married Alice Mary Gordon Shirref (1850-1939) at St. Jude's Church in South Kensington.