10 Facts About Henry Hodge

Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge professionally styled The Hon Mr Justice Hodge, was an English solicitor and Justice of the High Court of England and Wales.

Henry Hodge then joined the Child Poverty Action Group, working as its solicitor and deputy director until 1977.

Henry Hodge served as deputy chairman of the Legal Aid Board from 1996 to 1999.

Henry Hodge became a Recorder in 1993, and a Circuit Judge in October 1999, when he retired from his firm.

Henry Hodge was appointed Chief Immigration Adjudicator in 2001, by Derry Irvine then the Lord Chancellor.

Henry Hodge confessed that he was "married to the Labour Party", for which he contested the new seat of Croydon South in the February 1974 general election, but Sir William Clark won the seat for the Conservatives.

Henry Hodge then became a Councillor in the London Borough of Islington, where he met his second wife, Margaret Watson.

Henry Hodge married first, in 1971, Miranda Tufnell; they divorced in 1975.

Henry Hodge married Labour politician Margaret Watson in 1978, with whom he had two daughters.

Henry Hodge was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Social Security Advisory Committee in the 1993 Birthday Honours, and was knighted in 2004.