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English poet of the First World War

William Noel HodgsonMC (3 January 1893 – 1 July 1916) was an English poet. During the First World War, he published stories and poems under the pen name Edward Melbourne.

Early life and education

Hodgson was the fourth and youngest child of Henry Bernard Hodgson, the first Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich.

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He was born at Thornbury, near Bristol, but the family soon moved to Berwick-upon-Tweed. He entered into The School House of Durham School in September 1905 on a King's Scholarship. He steered in the second crew in 1907;^{[clarification needed]} was in the XI, 1910, 1911; and in the XV, 1910.

He won the Steeplechase in 1909 and 1911. He left Durham in July 1911, with Gallipoli war poet and friend Nowell Oxland, for Oxford University where he was an exhibitioner of Christ Church. He took a first in Classical Moderations in March 1913 and decided to stay and do Greats.^[1]

First World War

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