Thomas Hodge (Garibaldian)

[8] Orsini and Hodge planned to oppose Mazzini's newspaper Italia del Popolo, using Franchi's La Ragione published in Turin as their vehicle.

He notes that George Holyoake's own relation of the plot is self-exculpatory: but points to Hodge, in the West Country, as being one of the inner circle of six people who knew about it.

[10] From the La Roquette Prisons where he was held, he nominated as his executor, on 10 March, Henri Cernuschi, whom he knew as a colleague in the assembly of the Roman Republic (1849).

[11] Meanwhile, on 26 February 1858, Camillo Cavour wrote to James Hudson that Hodge had been arrested at Genoa, and papers with him were incriminating evidence of his association with the Orsini plot.

Cernuschi was not able to overcome the objections of Assunta Orsini, widow of Felice, to an English upbringing for her daughters; she also did not want them educated in Paris.

[19] In September of that year, Hodge gave £1000 to Garibaldi funds, signed "friend of Orsini" from Great Portland Street.

McCabe comments that Hodge said much more than was safe, from the point of view of gaining attention, in attributing the donation in a letter to "a member of the old firm of January 14th", the date of the Orsini bomb attack.