Frank Roy Hodson was born in 1930 and studied archaeology at Cambridge University receiving his Ph.D degree in 1957.
Between 1966 and 1968 he was an Atlas Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge. He specialised in Prehistoric Archaeology, with particular interests in the European Iron Age and the use of quantification in Archaeology.
During the 1960s, he dedicated much effort in developing and spreading the use of computers in archaeological research. At ACL he was a large user of the Atlas Algol system.
Later he was a lecturer and then professor of European Prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London where he is now Professor Emeritus.
A short biography can be found at the Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing.
Some of his work at Chilton is described in the paper Archaeological Classification at Chilton.