HODGES, FRANK (1887— ), British politician, was born at Woolaston, Gloucestershire. At the age of 14 he entered the Vivian Colliery at Abertillery, South Wales. In 1912 he was elected a miners' agent and six years later secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. He became a civil lord of the Ad miralty in the Labour ministry of 1924. He lost his seat at the election of that year; and in 1925 was made general secretary of the International Miners' Federation. He resigned in 1927, and then became a member of the Central Electricity Board.
See his My Adventures as a Labour Leader (1925) .