HOBART, JOHN, 2ND EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, elder son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; b. 17 Aug 1723; adm. Apr 1732; left 1739; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 30 Oct 1739, residing Jan 1739/40 – Mich. 1743, matr. 1740; Grand Tour 1745-7 (including Italy); MP Norwich 1747 – 22 Sep 1756; Comptroller of the Household Dec 1755 – Nov 1756; Privy Councillor 27 Jan 1756; succ. father as 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire 22 Sep 1756; a Lord of the Bedchamber 15 Nov 1756 – 5 Nov 1767; Ambassador to Russia Aug 1762 – Jan 1765; Lord Lieut. of Ireland 18 Dec 1776 – Dec 1780; during his Viceroyalty free trade was granted to Ireland, measures for the relief of Roman Catholics and dissenters were passed, and the Volunteer movement rapidly spread; member, Society of Dilettanti 1746; FRS 3 Feb 1785; DL Norfolk 1745; described by Horace Walpole as “fat, fair, sweet and seen through in a moment”; m. 1st, 14 Jul 1761 Mary Ann, dau. of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Thomas Drury, Bart., MP; m. 2nd, 24 Sep 1770 Caroline, sister of Thomas Conolly (qv); d. 3 Aug 1793. DNB.
HOBART, ROBERT, 4TH EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, second son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); b. 6 May 1760; adm. 13 Jun 1770; left 1776; Lieut., 7th Foot 23 Jul 1778; Capt., 30th Foot 25 Jul 1778; 5th Dragoons 17 Nov 1780; Maj., 18th Dragoons 15 Aug 1783; retd. 2 Nov 1784; served in American war; ADC to Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1784-7, and to Marquis of Buckingham, Lord Lieut. Ireland, 1787-9; MP (I) Portarlington 1784-90, Armagh 1790-7; MP Bramber 15 Dec 1788-90, Lincoln 1790-6; Chief Secretary for Ireland Apr 1789 – Dec 1793; Privy Councillor (I) 21 Apr 1789; Privy Councillor (GB) 1 May 1793; Governor of Madras Oct 1793- Aug 1798, arriving in India summer 1794; summoned to House of Lords in father’s barony as Lord Hobart 30 Nov 1798; Secretary of State for War and the Colonies Mar 1801- Jan 1805; succeeded father as 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire 14 Oct 1804; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster Jan –Jul 1805; Joint Postmaster General Feb 1806- May 1807; President, Board of Control, from 4 Apr 1812 (also Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, May – Jun 1812); m. 1st, 4 Jan 1792 Margaretta, widow of Thomas Adderley MP, Innishannon, co. Cork (and mother of Edward Hale Adderley, qv), and dau. of Edmund Bourke, Corry, co. Mayo; m. 2nd, 1 Jun 1799 Hon. Eleanor Agnes Eden, dau. of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland PC, politician and diplomat; d. from effects of a fall in St. James’s Park 4 Feb 1816. DNB.
HOBART, HON. ROBERT, younger son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; b.; adm. (aged 6) Jun 1732; d. 22 May 1733.
HOBART, THOMAS, son of Thomas Hobart, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and (?) Anne Gifford, Wiltshire; b.; adm.; KS 1684; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1687, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1687, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1688; 10th in “ordo” 1690/1; BA 1690/1; MA 1694; adm. Leyden Univ. 30 Aug 1691; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1693, Major Fellow 26 Jun 1694 – c. 1699; migr. to Christ’s Coll., Fellow from 1699; MD 1700; travelling tutor with Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury in Italy 1710-11, and with Thomas Coke (afterwards 1st Earl of Leicester) in Italy and other European countries 1712-8; by his will he left mourning rings to John Colbatch (qv), Sir Robert Cotton, Bart. (qv), Stephen Phillips (qv), and William Wade (qv), and “the manuscripts which I bought in his and Dr Ferrari’s Company at Lyons” to Sir Thomas Mostyn, Bart. (qv); d. at Clermont, France, before end Apr 1727 (will proved PCC 27 Apr 1727)
HOBART-HAMPDEN, AUGUSTUS EDWARD, 6TH EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, brother of George Robert Hampden, 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv); b. 1 Nov 1793; adm.; left 1812; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 May 1812; BA 1815; MA 1818; ordained deacon 1816, priest 1817; Rector of Benington, Lincs. 14 Dec 1817; Rector of Welbourn, Lincs., 20 May 1818; Rector of Waltham on the Wolds, Leics., 25 Jul 1820-47; Rector and Prebendary of Wolverhampton, Staffs., 1844-7; succ. brother as 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire 1 Feb 1849; assumed additional surname and arms of Hampden 5 Aug 1878; m. 1st, 12 Sep 1816 Mary, sister of Charles Williams (left 1811, qv); m. 2nd, 15 Aug 1826 his cousin Mary Isabella, eldest dau. of Rev. Godfrey Egremont, Vicar of Crowle, Lincs.; d. 29 Oct 1885.
HOBBES, ROBERT; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1597, adm. scholar 1598, matr. 1598; BA 1601/2; MA 1605; ordained deacon and priest (Peterborough) 25 Jul 1605; Rector of Wainfleet All Saints, Lincs., 1605-15; Vicar of Warnham, Sussex, 2 Aug 1615-26; Vicar of Madehurst, Sussex, from 3 May 1626; m.; d. Jul or Aug 1629.
HOBBYE, RICHARD; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1576, adm. scholar 1577, matr. Easter 1577; BA 1580/1; MA 1584 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1584).
Hobday, Frederick Thomas John, son of Major Sir Frederick George Thomas Hobday, C.M.G., Principal of the Royal Veterinary College, by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Evans, of Thornbury, Herefs; b. Dec. 12, 1901; adm. Sept. 21, 1916 (H); left July 1920; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1920; shot for Cambridge v. Oxford 1921-4, and for England in the Elcho Match 1922 and 1923; B.A. 1923, M.A. 1930, B. Ch. 1931; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 1931; practised at Yeovil, Somerset, and afterwards at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia; m. April 22, 1933, Sezerina Néomi, daughter of Daniel Radford, of Darenup, Kojonup, Western Australia; d. 14 Mar. 1986.
HOBHOUSE, JOHN BYRON, eldest son of Henry William Hobhouse, Bath, banker [previously EICS Bengal ?], and Mary Anne, dau. of John Palmer, Calcutta; nephew of John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (qv); b. 24 Mar 1817; adm. 11 Jan 1830 (G); left Christmas 1832; Ensign, 66th Foot 27 Jun 1834; Lieut., 78th Foot 22 Nov 1836; 13th Foot 4 Aug 1838; killed in action at Jugdullock, Afghanistan, during retreat from Kabul, 12 Jan 1842.