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Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold


Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold DL (23 September 1851 – 3 June 1937) was a British Conservative politician.

Born as Robert Trotter Hodge, he was the son of G W Hodge of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was educated at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford. In 1877 he married Frances Caroline Hermon, only daughter of Edward Hermon, Member of Parliament (MP) for Preston. In 1903 he added her surname to his own to become "Hermon-Hodge".

He entered politics in 1884, when he was adopted as Conservative candidate for the Wallingford parliamentary constituency. The seat was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, however, and he instead contested the new seat of Accrington in Lancashire. Although he failed to be elected on that occasion, another general election was called in 1886, and he was elected to the Commons as Accrington's MP. He served one term as the town's member, losing the seat at the next election in 1892, and narrowly failing to be re-elected in an 1893 by-election.

Hodge returned to Parliament at the 1895 general election as MP for the Southern or Henley Division of Oxfordshire. He held the seat in 1900 but was defeated in the Liberal landslide of 1906. It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII, and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Wyfold Court in the Parish of Chickendon in the county of Oxford.


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