Hodgson, Sir Gerald Hassall, son of the Rev. Francis Douglas Hodgson, Vicar of Worth, near Dover, Kent, by Margaret, daughter of Lieut. Christopher Clarke Hassall, R., of Tunbridge Wells, Kent; grandson of John George Hodgson (q.v.); b. July 20, 1891; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); left July 1908; a clerk in the Deal branch of the National Provincial Bank 1908-11; asst. to Messrs. Parry and Co., Madras, 1911-6; general manager in India to the Commonwealth Trust, Ltd., Calicut, 1925-28; managing director of Parry & Co., Ltd., Madras 1928-44; member of Madras Legislative Council; knighted 1943; author of Thomas Parry, Freemerchant, madras (1938); a donor of the Madras Cup 1931; served in France with 1st and 6th Batts. of the Royal West Kent Regt. Sept. 1916 - Nov. 1917; wounded at the first battle of Cambrai Nov. 20, 1917; m. 1st July 2, 1924, Margaret Emma, daughter of Henry Sibley Hogge, of Ferndown, Dorset; 2nd Sept. 20, 1929, Sylvia Joan, daughter of Maximilian Robert Lawrence, of Dagenham, Essex; d. 1 July 1971.