Hodder and Stoughton is a British publishing company within Hachette UK. It was founded by Matthew Henry Hodder (1830-1911) and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton (1840–1917) in 1868 in London. Hodder & Stoughton published both religious and secular works and they were also the originators of the Teach Yourself line of self-instruction books, which are still published through Hodder Headline's educational division. In 1993, Headline acquired Hodder & Stoughton and, the company became Hodder Headline Ltd. In 2002, Hodder Headline Ltd. acquired John Murray, and in 2004, the company was bought by Hachette Livre. Hodder Headline Ltd. was restructured, and a single Hodder & Stoughton publishing division was created. It publishes a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles and is renowned for passion, quality, and delivering bestselling books in many different formats.

Son of a Dorset chemist (pharmacist), M.H. Hodder was born in Uxbridge, Middlessex. He started in the publishing business at age 14, working for Jackson & Walford, the official publisher for the Congrgational Union. His name was added to the company’s name in 1861. When Messrs. Jackson and Walford retired in 1868 he took over the firm; he then joined with Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton, who was an evangelical dissenter like himself, to form the well-known firm of Hodder & Stoughton, now owned by Hachette. In the 1880s and 1890s, Hodder & Stoughton published many of Sir John William Dawson’s books, including those which dealt with the relationship between science and religion, a controversial topic at the time. Hodder was a lifelong friend of Sir George Williams, the founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and he gave a speech to the 1869 meeting of the organization in Portland, Maine.

Charles Hodge was born on December 27, 1797, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a Presbyterian theologian and principal of Princeton Theological Seminary (1851-1878). He graduated from Princeton University in 1815. He became professor of biblical literature at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1822 and professor of theology in 1840 until his retirement in 1877. In 1846, he served for one year as moderator of the “Old School” Presbyterian Church. Hodge constructed an influential “Systematic Theology” (3 vols., 1871–1873) and wrote numerous biblical commentaries. He published "What is Darwinism?" (1874), claiming that Darwinism, was, in essence, atheism. For 46 years he edited the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, a journal that he founded in 1825 and to which he contributed nearly 150 articles.

In 1822, he married Sarah Bache (1798–1849). He died on June 19, 1878, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges was born on April 19, 1852, in Salem, Massachusetts.

He was an American librarian. He studied chemistry and physics in Hanover and Heidelberg, Germany, and also attended Harvard University (B.A., 1874; M.A., 1879) where he was appointed an assistant in physics in 1879. He taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1882 to 1883 and served as editor of Science Magazine from 1885 to 1894. He became the Library Director of the Cincinnati Public Library in 1900 and retired from that position in 1924. Hodges served as the president of the American Library Association from 1909 to 1910. He was named a Notable Ohio Librarian in the Hall of Fame in 1980.

In 1886, he married Adele Louise Goepper (1858-1946). He died on November 25, 1927, in Mount Healthy, Ohio.