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A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hodder, Thomas Eyre

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1752357A Naval Biographical Dictionary — Hodder, Thomas EyreWilliam Richard O'Byrne

HODDER. (Lieutenant, 1824.)

Thomas Eyre Hodder is third son of the late Wm. Henry Moore Hodder, Esq., of Hoddersfield, co. Cork, by Harriet, daughter of the Right Hon. Henry Theophilus Clements, brother of the first Earl of Leitrim. He is grandson of the late Capt. Henry Moore, of the 48th Foot; and brother of the present Wm. Henry Moore Hodder, Esq., of Hoddersfield, Colonel of the North Cork Militia, and a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for that county.

This officer entered the Navy 26 Jan. 1811; was made Lieutenant, 19 June, 1824, into the Eden 26, Capt. John Lawrence, on the West India station; and from 24 April, 1828, until paid off in April, 1829, was employed, on Home service, in the Clio sloop, Capt. Robt. Deans. With the exception of a brief attachment in 1836 to the Vanguard 80, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, fitting at Portsmouth, he has not been since afloat.

Lieut. Hodder is at present Emigration Agent at Liverpool.