Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold

Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold, DL (23 September 1851 – 3 June 1937) was a British Conservative politician.

[2] Hodge gained his longest spell in the Commons from the 1895 general election as MP for the Southern or Henley Division of Oxfordshire.

[4][5] It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII,[6] and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Wyfold Court in the Parish of Checkendon in the county of Oxford.

In May 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wyfold, of Accrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster and participated in the Lords 34 times, all before 1931.

[12][13][14] He enjoyed the life of a country gentleman at the family estate of Wyfold Court, near Reading, Berkshire.

He was placed under orders to proceed to South Africa, but was forbidden by his medical advisers to undertake any active service.