Portrait of Mary Constance Hodgkin

Mary Constance Hodgkin, anthropologist, lecturer and student adviser, was born on 5 April 1909 in England, daughter of Arnold McKerrow and his wife Gwendolen Mary, née Jones. On 13 February 1931 she married Ernest Pease Hodgkin, who had been appointed government medical entomologist in the Federated States of Malaya. Four months later, after gaining her teaching diploma, she joined Ernest in Kuala Lumpur. A daughter and three sons were born there. Following the Japanese invasion of Malaya Mary Hodgkin and her four children were evacuated in January 1942 to Perth (Gosnells) and her husband was interned in Singapore. More detailed information can be found in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.