Thomas Vere Hodgson

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File:Thomas Vere Hodgson's sledging flag.png

Thomas Vere Hodgson (1864–1926) was a biologist aboard H.M.S. Discovery during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, known by the nickname Muggins.{{cite web |url=http://www.antarctic-circle.org/nicknames.htm |title=Some Antarctic Nicknames |date=April 24, 2009 |publisher=The Antarctic Circle}} He pursued his interest in marine biology initially in his spare time, but eventually found work at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth. He worked on the collections from the Southern Cross Expedition,{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/AHT/HistoryHutPointCrew/ |title=Meet the Crew of Scott's Discovery Expedition |publisher=Antarctic Heritage Trust |accessdate=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106182938/http://www.heritage-antarctica.org/AHT/HistoryHutPointCrew/ |archivedate=January 6, 2009 }} before joining the Discovery expedition as one of its oldest members, at 37.{{cite web |url=http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/biography/hodgson_thomas.htm |title=Thomas Vere Hodgson - Biographical notes |publisher=Cool Antarctica |accessdate=January 13, 2010}} The post of naturalist had previously been offered to William Speirs Bruce, who declined, preferring to travel on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.{{cite web |url=http://www.south-pole.com/p0000089.htm |title=Antarctic Explorer: Robert Falcon Scott |accessdate=January 13, 2010 |publisher=south-pole.com}} Hodgson's work on the Discovery provided the first descriptions of deep sea floor communities in the Antarctic.{{cite web |url=http://scini.mlml.calstate.edu/SCINI_2007/historical.html |title=History of Antarctic Benthic Ecology: The Lost Experiments |publisher=California State University |accessdate=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719160211/http://scini.mlml.calstate.edu/SCINI_2007/historical.html |archivedate=July 19, 2011 }}

Hodgson was reappointed curator of the Plymouth Museum on his return and went on to study the collections from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–1904. He died in May 1926.

The National Marine Biological Library at the Marine Biological Association holds some of Hodgson's scientific notes in the MBA Archive Collection.T.V. Hodgson material in the MBA Archive Collection: http://www.mba.ac.uk/NMBL/archives/archives_personal/personal_papers.htm#hodgson {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120713002301/http://www.mba.ac.uk/NMBL/archives/archives_personal/personal_papers.htm#hodgson |date=2012-07-13 }}

Cape Hodgson, the northernmost point of Black Island in the Ross Archipelago is named after Thomas Hodgson.

Hodgson was a fellow of the Anthropological Institute.{{cite web |url=http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-List-of-AI-fellows-1901.html |title=List of Anthropological Institute Fellows in 1901 |publisher=Pitt Rivers Museum |work=Englishness |accessdate=January 13, 2010}}

The well-known World War Two diarist Vere Hodgson was his niece and was named after him.