Robert Howard Hodgkin

Robert Howard Hodgkin (24 April 1877 – 28 June 1951) was a historian of modern history at Queen's College in Oxford, and served as its provost from 1937 until 1946. In 1900 he was named a lecturer of modern history at the college, and from 1928 to 1934 was the "University lecturer" in that subject. His seminal work, A History of the Anglo-Saxons, was published in 1935. Hodgkin was part of a family of historians; his father, Thomas Hodgkin, was a recognized historian of Europe in the Middle Ages in addition to a banker, while his son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, was a Marxist historian of Africa.

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