Augustine John Hodson (called Austin;National Archives — Bishops of Tewkesbury 6 May 187928 January 1961)Augustine Hodson. The Times (London, England), Monday, 30 January 1961; p. 12; Issue 54992 was the first Bishop of Tewkesbury (suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Gloucester) from 1938Ecclesiastical News. Bishop of Tewkesbury consecrated The Times (London, England), Saturday, 26 February 1938; p. 14; Issue 47929 until his resignation in 1955.Resignation of the Bishop of Tewsbury The Times, Tuesday, 29 March 1955; p. 8; Issue 53200C; col. D
Son of John and Annie, Hodson was educated at Lichfield Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He studied for ordination at St Stephen's House, Oxford, and never married.
He was made deacon in Advent 1906 (23 December), by Edgar Gibson, Bishop of Gloucester, at Gloucester Cathedral, and ordained priest in 1908, serving his curacy at All Saints', Cheltenham. Between 1911 and 1915 he was Assistant Missioner to the Gloucester Diocesan Mission before serving Leckhampton as curate-in-charge (1915–1921); during the latter he was also a temporary chaplainReference in National archives (1918–1920). He had been interviewed by the Chaplain-General in July 1918, was described as 'Dark, keen... good' and sent to France to work in a Casualty Clearing Station.Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy Before he was demobilised, it was reported, 'Has done good work as hospital chaplain in spite of rather poor health'.TNA WO374/33968 He moved in 1921 to become Vicar of Chalford, then of Wotton-under-Edge from 1924.
Hodson departed Wotton in 1934 to become a canon residentiary of Gloucester Cathedral, in which post he remained until death. During that time, he was Archdeacon of Gloucester (1938–1948) and Bishop of Tewkesbury — the first suffragan bishop of the diocese (1938–1955). He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1938Records of the Diocese of Gloucester (Retrieved 22 December 2015) (the Feast of St Matthias), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace chapel; and resigned the See effective 31 March 1955. His younger brother was Robert, Bishop suffragan of Shrewsbury.
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