Luke Hodges was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

Hodges was the Sheriff of Bristol in the year 1638. In 1643, he was appointed to the parliamentary committee to assess Bristol and was restored to his position as common councillor for Bristol by the parliament in 1645.[1] In January 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol in the Long Parliament and sat until 1653.[2] In 1649 he was one of the members given instructions for the preservation of timber in the Forest of Dean. He became a militia commissioner for Bristol in 1655.[1]

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  1. ^ a b W R Williams Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester
  2. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
Parliament of England
Preceded by
John Glanville
John Tailer
Member of Parliament for Bristol
1646–1653
With: Richard Aldworth
Succeeded by
Not represented in Barebones Parliament