Robert Hodgson (diplomat)

Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson, KCMG, KBE (25 February 1874 – 18 October 1956) was a British diplomat and consul.

He stayed in Vladivostok until 1919, when he was moved to Omsk as acting high commissioner to the anti-Bolshevik government.

He retired in August 1936, but in December 1937 returned to the Foreign Office as British agent to General Franco's government in Burgos, Spain.

From 1943 to 1945, he was chairman of the council of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and from 1944 to 1945 an adviser to the Foreign Office on censorship.

On 9 October 1956, Hodgson tripped over the kerb and fell while crossing Sloane Street in Chelsea, fracturing his femur.