Thomas Hodges (Governor of Bombay)

Thomas Hodges (died 1771) was the British Governor of Bombay from 28 September 1767 to 23 February 1771.{{cite book|last=(M.R.A.S.)|first=Walter Hamilton|title=A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Counties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lOI-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA165|date=1820|publisher=Murray|page=165}} He signed a peace treaty between the East India Company and Hyder Ali in 1770.{{cite book|last=Alexandrowicz|first=C. H.|title=The Law of Nations in Global History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQJLDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198766070|page=149}}

Thomas Hodges was the son of Thomas Hodges of Bredy, Dorset. He married a daughter of Colonel Hallett of Barbados;Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, 1915, p. 120 their son, Thomas Hallett Hodge, married a daughter of the political reformer John Cartwright.The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1857, p. 735

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