Robert Leighton Hodson (30 March 1885 – 8 January 1960) was the third Bishop of Shrewsbury in the modern era.
[1] Son of John Humphries Hodson and his wife Annie, he was educated at Berkhamsted School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford,[2] graduating as Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
He trained for the Church of England ministry at Lichfield Theological College, which he entered in 1907.
[4] He held several positions at Lichfield Cathedral as Treasurer (1935–36), Canon (1935–44) and Precentor (1936–44); and served as a Proctor in Convocation (1932–35).
[7] He retired in October 1959[2][8] and moved to Llanfairfechan in north Wales, but died less than three months later, aged 74.