He devoted most of his time in Holland to portrait-painting in crayon, in which he was very successful, and gained the highest esteem. There are several portraits by him in the Ryksmuseum at Amsterdam, including Louis Napoleon, king of Holland, William I, king of the Netherlands, his own portrait, and that of his daughter. Hodges continued to engrave in mezzotint from the portraits painted by himself, and engraved among others Napoleon as emperor, and the grand pensionary Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck. The latter engraving, from the skilful treatment of the dress and accessories, is considered one of the best examples of mezzotint-engraving. When the kingdom of the Netherlands was formed, Hodges was appointed one of the commissioners sent to Paris to recover the pictures removed by Napoleon. He died in Amsterdam on 24 July 1837. Hodges married in 1784, at St. George's, Hanover Square, Miss Margaret Harmar. His son, J. N. Hodges, engraved a few plates himself, and became a print-dealer in Amsterdam. A daughter, Emma Jane, on her death in 1868, bequeathed some portraits by her father to the Ryksmuseum. A small portrait of Hodges at the age of twenty-eight, drawn by E. Bell, is in Anderdon's ‘Collectanea Biographica’ in the print-room, British Museum. S. W. Reynolds the elder [q. v.] was his pupil.
[Immerzeel's Levens en Werken der Hollandsche Kunstschilders, &c.; Kramm's continuation to the same; Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits; Caulfield's Calcographiana; Dodd's manuscript History of English Engravers (Brit. Mus. Addit. MSS. 33401); Bredius's Catalogue of the Ryksmuseum, Amsterdam.]
HODGES, EDWARD (1796–1867), organist and composer, born at Bristol in 1796, was organist at Clifton Church, and subsequently of the two churches, St. James and St. Nicholas, both at Bristol. In 1825 he proceeded to the degree of doctor of music from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and in 1838 he went with his family to America. At New York Hodges was appointed organist to St. John's episcopal chapel, and in 1846 to Trinity Church, opened on 21 May with an organ built from his specifications (Grove). Prostrated by illness he resigned his appointments and returned in 1863 to England. He died at Clifton 1 Sept. 1867.
Hodges composed a morning and evening service and two anthems for the reopening of St. James's organ, Bristol, 2 May 1824, and published them in the following year. A second edition of the evening service, in C, was published at New York in 1863. Hodges also published: 1. ‘An Apology for Church Music and Musical Festivals, in answer to the animadversions of the “Standard” and the “Record,”’ pp. 71, Bristol, 1834. 2. ‘Canticles of the Church,’ compiled New York, 1864. 3. ‘The Te Deum, with Kyrie Chant and Ter Sanctus, in D,’ published after the composer's death by his daughter, London, 1885. 4. According to Grove's ‘Dictionary,’ i. 741, Hodges's ‘Essay on the Cultivation of Church Music,’ was published at New York, 1841. The ‘Trinity Collection of Church Music,’ edited by Tucker, Boston, 1864, contains some psalm and hymn tunes and arrangements by Hodges.
[Romilly's Grad. Cant. p. 192; Clifton Chronicle for 4 Sept. 1867.]
HODGES, EDWARD RICHMOND (1826–1881), orientalist, born in 1826, became, while a London apprentice, a student of Hebrew, and, after being for a short time a scripture reader, was sent as a missionary by the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, first to Palestine, and afterwards to Algeria, which he quitted in 1856. A few years later he severed his connection with the society, and for some time he acted as a minister of the reformed episcopal church; but he subsequently became a clergyman of the church of England. He died at his house in Tollington Park, London, on 9 May 1881, aged fifty-five, leaving a widow and six children. He was well known as a scholar in oriental languages, and assisted George Smith (1825–1876) [q. v.] in his cuneiform researches. He published, in addition to numerous articles in magazines: 1. ‘Ancient Egypt,’ 1851. 2. An edition of Craik's ‘Principia Hebraica,’ 1863, fol. 3. An edition, with notes, of Cory's ‘Ancient Fragments of the Phœnician … and other Authors,’ 1876, 8vo. He also revised Mickle's translation of the ‘Lusiad’ of Camoens for Bohn's ‘Standard Library,’ 1877, 8vo. Hodges assisted Dr. Gotch in the preparation of his Paragraph Bible, and wrote on American languages in the ‘English Cyclopædia.’ At the time of his death he was engaged upon an English version of the ‘Armenian History’ of Moses of Khorene.
[Private information; Morning Post, 9 June 1881; Academy, 18 June 1881, by Prof. Sayce.]
HODGES, NATHANIEL, M.D. (1629–1688), physician, son of Dr. Thomas Hodges, vicar of Kensington, was born in that parish on 13 Sept. 1629. He was a king's scholar of Westminster School, and obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1646. In 1648 he migrated to Oxford, and was appointed
