Hodgkin family

The Hodgkin family is a British Quaker family of which several members have excelled in science, medicine, and arts.

The first famous member of the family was the grammarian and calligrapher John Hodgkin (1766–1845). His descendants include the physician Thomas Hodgkin (after whom Hodgkin's lymphoma was named) and Nobel laureate physiologist Alan Hodgkin.

Family tree

For reasons of 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.


The first generation: John Hodgkin

John Hodgkin (1766–1845)[1]

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]

The second generation

Thomas Hodgkin (physician)

Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866)

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 opum magnus 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 Laureate Alan Hodgkin.


The fourth generation

Robert Howard Hodgkin

Robert Howard Hodgkin (1877 – 1951) was an English historian of modern history and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford. He was married to Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of fellow Oxford historian Arthur Smith and together they had a son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin.


The fifth generation

Eliot 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]

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910 – 1982) was an English Marxist historian of Africa. He was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith. In 1937, he married the British chemist Dorothy Crowfoot (1910-1994) who, under the name Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.[5]

Alan Hodgkin

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914-1998)

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914 – 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. He married Marion Rous in 1944, daughter of American pathologist Francis Peyton Rous, who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their son Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University.

The sixth generation

Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) was a British painter.

Jonathan Hodgkin

Jonathan Alan Hodgkin (born 1949) is a British biochemist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford, [6] and an emeritus fellow of Keble College, Oxford.[7]


References

  1. ^ Kass A M and Kass E H (1985). "The Thomas Hodgkin portraits: a case of mistaken identity". Med. Hist. 29 (3): 259–263. doi:10.1017/S0025727300044318. PMC 1139540. PMID 3892196.
  2. ^ a b c "Wellcome Library: Hodgkin family". www.mundus.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  3. ^ Hodgkin, Alan (1992). Chance & Design - Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0521456036.
  4. ^ a b "Eliot Hodgkin: Biography". www.eliothodgkin.com. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964". Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2008.
  6. ^ "Q&A with Jonathan Hodgkin" (PDF). Current Biology. 14. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2004.03.015. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  7. ^ "Emeritus Fellows" (PDF). keble.ox.ac.uk. Keble College, Oxford. Retrieved November 2, 2019.

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