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 Katharine, daughter of the late Mr. Herbert Hore, of Pole Hore, co. Wexford.

HOBHOUSE, The Right Hon. Sm Abthub, Q.C, K.C.S.I., third son of the late Bight Hon. Henry Hobhonse, of Hsulspen House, Somersetshire, by Harriet, sixth daughter of John Turton; Esq., of Sugnall Hall, Staffordshire, was bom at Hadspen, Nov. 10, 1819. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a first-class in classics in 1841. In 1845 he became a member of the Chancery bar, and practised largely in the Bolls Court. He was appointed one of her Majesty's Counsel in 1865, but in the follow- year he quitted the bar in conse- quence of ill-health. In 1866 he was appointed a Charity Commissioner ; and in 1869 an Endowed Schools Commissioner. In 1872 he was nominated Law Member of the Go- vemor-Generars Council in India, and on his retirement in 1877 was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India. In 1878 he was appointed arbitrator under the Epping Forest Act, and in 1881 he was made a Privy Coun- cillor and a member of the Judicial Committee. Sir Arthur has taken a keen interest in many social topics, especially in those connected with endowments and with set- tlements of land. He has de- livered many addresses on these subjects, which were collected and printed under the title of "The Dead Hand" (1880). He stood for Westminster in the Liberal interest at the general election of 1880, but was unsuc- cessful.

HODGES, J. Sydney Willes, was born at Worthing, April 4, 1829, and educated at Clothworkers' School, Sutton Valence, and at the Grammar School, Maidstone. He exhibited at the Boyal Academy in 1865 portraits of the late Bishop of Exeter and the Duke of Northum- berland. He has since exhibited Portraits of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Tait), Bajah Sir James Brooke, the Duke of Teck, the Bev. Dr. Stoughton, Admiral of the Fleet Sir H. Keppel, and Sir Protheroe Smith. Mr. Hodges has painted also the following subscrip- tion portraits : — The Bev. Dr. Vaughan, for the Mansion House, Doncaster ; the Bishop of Adelaide and Sir James Fergusson, for the people of Adelaide ; General Ca- vanagh, for Town HaU, Singapore ; Major-General Boileau"^for the Sol- diers' Daughters' Home; Mr. Beres- ford Hope, M.P., for St. Augus- tine's College ; and Sir Galbraith Logan, for Netley Hospital. He published a volume of poems 1854 ; "Geoffrey's Wife," a novel under the pseudonym "Stanley Hope," 1874; "A New Godiva," a novel, 1876 ; " Among the Gibjigs," a child's romance, 1881 ; " Among the Woblins," a sequel to the for- mer, 1883. He has written a series of articles entitled "Artists' Haunts," for the Maga%ine of Art, and for the Nineteenth Century, Oct., 1883, a pa{>er containing some new discoveries in connection with light and colour.

HODGSON, John Evan, B.A.. was born in London, March 1, 1831, and spent some of his early years in Bussia, where his father established himself as a merchant in 1835. After receiving his education at Bugby School he entered his father's counting-house, but in 1853 he came back to England, abandoned commercial pursuits, and became a student in the Boyal Academy. His first picture was exhibited in 1856, since which time he has been a reg^ular exhibitor. He began with domestic and con- temporaneous subjects, but painted historical pictures from 1861 Ull 1869, when his visit to Northern Africa set him upon subjects of Moorish life, to which he has since chiefly confined himself. He was elected a Boyal Academician, Dec. 18^ 1879. His principal pictures