About Michael Hodgetts
Lived 1936 – 2022 (aged 85–86). Michael Hodgetts was a British historian.
Michael William Hodgetts (29 March 1936 – 12 December 2022) was an English Catholic historian who became a leading expert on priest holes and on Harvington Hall.
Early life Hodgetts was born in Birmingham on 29 March 1936, and was raised a Catholic. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and then studied classics at Worcester College, Oxford, as well as studying for three years as a seminarian at the Venerable English College, Rome, before becoming a teacher at St Thomas More Catholic School, Willenhall.
Career In the 1970s and 1980s, he sat on the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, alongside his work as a teacher, and his translation of the hymn Pange lingua is now used in the English-language Catholic liturgy for Good Friday.
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Awards Knight of St Gregory the Great (1990)
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Who was Michael Hodgetts?
English Catholic historian (1936–2022)
When was Michael Hodgetts born?
Michael Hodgetts was born in 1936.
When did Michael Hodgetts die?
Michael Hodgetts died in 2022.
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Michael Hodgetts was a historian.
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Michael Hodgetts was British.
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