Robert MacLeod Hodgson

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Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson (1874—October 17, 1956) was a British diplomat.

He attended Radley College from 1887 to 1893, where he was a prefect, and then Trinity College, Oxford, where he was a member of the University's hockey team.

He began his diplomatic career as Vice-Consul at Marseilles in 1901, then in Vladivostok from 1907 to 1911, when he was promoted to Consul. He remained at the Vladivostok consulate until 1919, when he was placed in charge of the High Commission at Omsk in Siberia and made the British commercial counsellor for Russia. From 1919 to 1924 he served as the British agent in Russia, and from 1924 to 1927 as the Chargé d'Affaires.

In 1928, he was appointed Minister to Albania. In 1937 he was appointed the British Agent to General Franco's nationalist government in Spain, and then in 1939 the Chargé d'Affaires.

From 1943 to 1945 he was Chairman of the Council of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and in 1944 and 1945 an adviser to the Foreign Office on censorship.

He was made CMG in 1920, KBE in 1925, and KCMG 1939.