Ernest Pease Hodgkin

Ernest Pease Hodgkin (26 June 1908 – 23 September 1998) was a British-Australian zoologist and marine scientist. He was known for his work on the estuaries of Western Australia.

Early life Hodgkin was born on 26 June 1908 in Arivonimamo, French Madagascar. He was one of six children born to Lydia (née Grubb) and Harold Olaf Hodgkin; three of his siblings died in infancy due to malaria. His parents were Quaker missionaries in Madagascar, members of the prominent Hodgkin and Pease families.

Hodgkin was educated in England, attending The Downs Malvern (1917–1920) and Sidcot School (1920–1926). He went on to study zoology at the Victoria University of Manchester, graduating Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in 1930. He was subsequently moved to the Federated Malay States to work as an entomologist at the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, studying insect disease vectors. Hodgkin was interned at Changi Prison following the Japanese invasion of Malaya.

Honours Hodgkin was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1983 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Western Australia in 1997.