For clarity, the tree does not include every family member. It is focused on the most prominent members and their direct ancestors and descendants, as well as those who, by marriage, connect the family to other prominent families or individuals.
John Hodgkin (1766–1845) was an English tutor, grammarian, and calligrapher. He married Elizabeth Rickman (1768-1833) of a Sussex Quaker family and together they had four sons of whom the first two died in infancy[2]
Thomas Hodgkin (1798 – 1866), or "Uncle Doctor" as he was known to succeeding generations,[2][3] was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. Hodgkin's lymphoma is named after him.
In 1850 he married Sarah Frances Scaife, a widow, but the couple had no children.
John Hodgkin
John Hodgkin (1800-1875) was an English barrister and Quaker preacher. He was married three times. From his first marriage to Elizabeth Howard (daughter of the meteorologist and chemist Luke Howard) he had five children, including the historian Thomas Hodgkin[2]
The third generation
Because John Hodgkin's first two sons died in infancy, and Thomas Hodgkin had no children, all members of the third generation were children of the younger John Hodgkin.
Thomas Hodgkin (historian)
Thomas Hodgkin (1831 – 1913) was a British historian and biographer. He is particularly known for his 8-volume magnum opus Italy and her Invaders. He married Lucy Ann Fox, daughter of Alfred Fox and had seven children with her. These include the historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and George Hodgkin, father to Nobel LaureateAlan Hodgkin.
Eliot Hodgkin (1905 – 1987) was an English painter, son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin
,[4] grandson of the engineer and antiquary John Eliot Hodgkin, and great-grandson of John Hodgkin. In 1940 he married Maria Clara Egle Laura (Mimi) Henderson (née Franceschi) and together they had one son and three grandchildren.[4]
Ernest Pease Hodgkin (1908 – 1998) was a renowned medical entomologist and marine biologist. Born in Madagascar as a descendant of the Pease family he studied malarial transmission in Malaysia, was a prisoner of war in Changi prison, and became the foremost expert on Western Australian river ecology and founded many of the Australian Quaker meeting houses and schools.
Joanna Hodgkin (born 1947) is a British novelist known primarily for mysteries who has published under both her maiden name Joanna Hodgkin and her married name Joanna Hines. She is also the biographer of her mother, Nancy Isobel Myers, who was the much-abused first wife of the writer Lawrence Durrell.