The Independent - London, February 26th, 2002
HODGSON'S ROOMS at 115 Chancery Lane were founded in 1807, and survived as a book-auction saleroom, almost unchanged, until 1981; they have now become a wine bar, but the shadow of their former existence lingers on. Wilfrid Hodgson was the last member of the family to conduct the auctions there, and with his death a link two centuries long with the book trade, and more particularly the Stationers' Company, has come to an end.
He was born in Bromley in 1915, the eldest of three children, and went to Tonbridge School, and thence in 1934 into the family firm, under the learned and benevolent rul...
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