Grosvenor Hodgkinson was an English lawyer and Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1874.

Hodgkinson was the son of George Hodgkinson and his wife Julia Beevor, daughter of the Rev. John. Beevor, Rector of Claypole, Lincolnshire. He was educated at the grammar school at Louth

King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth

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, and was admitted an attorney and solicitor in 1839. He was in practice at Newark, in partnership with J. T. B. Pratt, but gave up his legal practice in 1870. He was a director of the Law Life Assurance Co. and the Midland Railway Company and chairman of the London Chatham and Dover Railway. He was also a Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 (JP) for Newark and Nootinghamshire.

At the 1859 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1859

In the 1859 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, held their majority in the House of Commons over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives...

 Hodgkinson was elected as a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Newark

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, defeating the sitting Liberal MP the Earl of Lincoln. He was re-elected in 1865

United Kingdom general election, 1865

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 and in 1868

United Kingdom general election, 1868

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, and held the seat until he stood down from Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 at the 1874 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1874

-Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...

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Hodgkinson died on 15 February 1881, at his home in Newark, aged 62.

Hodgkinson married Alice Harvey, daughter of Robert Harvey of Balderton in 1845.

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