He was also chairman of Eltringhams Ltd, another shipbuilder, and a director of the Canning Town Glass Works in London.
[1] He was created a baronet in the 1921 New Year Honours for his company's services during the First World War,[2][3] despite a conviction in 1918 for "food hoarding".
[12][1] Through his eldest son,[5] he was a grandfather of Sir Andrew Rowland Hodge, 3rd Baronet (b.
broadcast on 24 September 2008, in which model Jodie Kidd traced her ancestors (Hodge was her great-grandfather), suggested that he may have bought his honour from David Lloyd George, part of the scandal that led to the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925.
[4] The programme reported that the archives of Parliament contain letters to Lloyd George, from Winston Churchill complaining of having been offered a bribe of £5,000, and from King George V complaining of the honour having been granted.