Burth data from 1851 census.

On his death record on FreeBMD, his forename is given as ‘Thomas-Law’; I’ve sent in a correction.
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In the 1851 census, 6 family and 12 servants:

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status  Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place

Thomas Law Hodges Head - Male 74 1777 Justice Of The Peace Nottinghamshire
Caroline Cordelia Hodges Daughter Unmarried  Female  45  1806 - Kent
Constantia Rebecca D 'Arley Niece Unmarried  Female  45  1806 - Faversham, Kent
Julia D 'Arley Niece Unmarried Female 42  1809  -  Beckley, Sussex
William F D 'Arley Nephew Unmarried Male  41  1810  -  Benenden, Kent
Humphry Robt Porter Servant Married Male 25  1826  -  Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
Ellen Baker Servant Unmarried Female 21 1830  -  Alfriston, Sussex
Joseph West Servant Unmarried Male 33 1818  -  Godmersham, Kent
Peter Barns Servant Unmarried Male 26 1825  -  Benenden, Kent
Mary Porter Servant Married Female 29 1822  -  Seal, Kent
Martha Cave Servant Unmarried Female 35 1816  -  Bishopsbourne, Kent
Mary Cave Servant Unmarried Female 27 1824  -  Rolvenden, Kent
Mercy Geer Servant Unmarried Female 23 1828  -  Yalding, Kent
Charlotte Cook Servant Unmarried Female 23  1828  -  Hunton, Kent
Harriot Frazier Servant Unmarried Female 20 1831  -  Kent
Giovanni Sarocco Servant - Male 46 1805  -  Perosa, Piedmont
Marie Ramsperger Servant - Female 24 1827  -  Nealtingen, Wurtemberg
Mary Tress Curteis Cousin - Female 28 1823  -  Canterbury, Kent


Birth town as transcribed Serlby Hall
Birth county Nottinghamshire
Birth county as transcribed Nottinghamshire
House name Nemsted

Registration district Cranbrook Union
Archive reference HO107
Piece number 1619
Folio 222
Page 26
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The list of their children on his memorial web page is the same as on Rebecca’s.  So there remains a discrepancy of 1 against the 11 children recorded by John Ramsden Twisden in his account of the Twysdens and Twisdens.
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His MI at Benenden, Kent reads as:

Inscription:
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Law HODGES, Esq. of Hemsted, deputy lieutenant of the county of Kent, Justice of the Peace for the counties of Kent & Sussex, chairman of the quarter sessions for many years and major in the West Kent Militia. He represented the county and subsequently to the passing the reform bill the western division in five parliaments. He married in 1802 Rebecca, only child of Sir Roger TWISDEN, Bart, and had issue Thomas Twisden Hodges, Esq. who married first, Mary Ann Floretta CHANDLESS and secondly Rosa WILSON, widow of General Sir W. NOTT, K.C.B. Anne Rebecca, wife of Cook Tylden PATTENSON, Esq; Frances Dorothy, wife of the Honourable Robert FORBES; Caroline Cordelia Hodges; Julia Elizabeth, wife of the Revd. W.M. Smith MARRIOTT; Katharine, wife of William PEARETH, Esq; Charlotte Lydia, wife of Edward Barrett CURTIES, Esq; Francis, Frederick George & Owen, who all three died in infancy. A true patriot, a kind and liberal landlord, an unfailing friend to the poor, faithful in every relation of public and private life, he served his generation according to the will of God, and now rests in sure and certain hope of a blessed resurrection, through the merits of his redeemer, born June 3rd, 1776, died May 14th 1857.

See: <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44360420>;.
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Burke records these arms for him in the 1847-9 edition of Burke’s landed gents:

Arms: Or three crescents sable on a canton of the second a ducal crown of the first

Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or an heraldic antelope’s head Argent horned and tufted gold.
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