Men of the Cloth

Henry was born in Brighton, Sussex to parents John Willaby Hodgson and Julia Hodgson. He retired in 1919 and died  on 20^th March 1860 and buriued in St Mary East Worlington’s graveyard.

He was born on 5^th April 1884 in Bournemouth and his father was a lodging house keeper. His early career was in the army serving with the 7^th Dragoon Guards in India, working in the clerical services, until his retirement from the forces in 1935. He was ordained as a deacon 1935 and confirmed as a priest a year later in 1936 and left East Worlington in July 1942 when he returned to his birth town of Bournemouth serving as vicar at Winterbourne Christ Church. He died on 21st Feb 1952 aged 67 and was buried in Vicarsford Cemetery, Forgan, Fife, Scotland.

Wiiliam was born in Cardiff, Wales on 10^th August 1888S. In 1910 he was ordained into the Anglican Church at the age of 22, he went to China in 1969 with the Church Commission Society where he stayed until his enforced return to England in 1920 due to ill health. He retired in 1960 to Worthing where he died on 5^th April 1976 at the age of 87.