He was educated in Wakefield at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, before going up to Downing College, Cambridge.
[2] Hodson also played List A one-day cricket for Cambridge University in the 1972 Benson & Hedges Cup, making four appearances.
[7] After graduating from Cambridge, Hodson made regular appearances for the Yorkshire seconds, but did not feature for the first eleven.
Away from cricket, he started a small business in 1977 and progressed to become the chief executive of The Oval Group, one of largest privately owned corporate insurance brokers in the United Kingdom.
[8] He was the first Yorkshireman to be MCC president since Sir William Worsley fifty years previously.