Telfair Hodgson Jr.

Telfair Hodgson Jr., also known as Telfair Hodgson, (September 14, 1876 – September 16, 1952) was an American businessman and academic administrator. He was the treasurer of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1908 to 1949. He was also the president of the Bank of Sewanee, and a developer of Belle Meade, Tennessee.

Early life Hodgson was born on September 14, 1876. His father, Telfair Hodgson, was an Episcopal priest who served as the third vice chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1879 to 1890. His mother, nee Frances Potter, was the daughter of a slave-owning planter from Savannah, Georgia.

Hodgson graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1898.

Personal life and death Hodgson married Medora Cheatham, the daughter of Confederate Major-General Benjamin F. Cheatham and great-granddaughter of James Robertson. She served as the honorary president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). who was the son of Edward Frost Parker (d. 1938), the dean of the Medical College of South Carolina.

Hodgson died on September 16, 1952, in Sewanee, Tennessee, at 75, two days shy of his 76th birthday. He was buried in Sewanee.