HILL, SIR RICHARD, BART., eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., MP, is first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Brian Broughton, Bart., MP; b. 6 Jun 1732; adm. Shrewsbury Sch. 1742; adm. Jun 1744 (Stephens'); left 1750; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1750; MA 2 Jul 1754; Grand Tour (Italy) 1756-7; a champion of George Whitefield and the Calvinistic Methodists 1757; attacked Oxford Univ. for expelling Methodist undergraduates 1768; defended Calvinism against criticisms by John Wesley and Fletcher of Madeley 1770; MP Shropshire 1780-1806; succ. father as 2nd baronet 7 Aug 1783; of Hawkstone, Shropshire; engaged in controversy with Archdeacon Daubeny 1798-9 and with Bishop Tomline of Lincoln 1803; author, religious pamphlets; d. unm. 25 Nov 1808. DNB.
HOARE, HENRY, elder son of Henry Hoare, Stourhead, Wilts., and of Fleet Street, London, goldsmith and banker, and his cousin Jane, dau. of Sir William Benson, Kt, Bromley, Middlesex; b. 7 Jul 1705; in under school list 1715; a partner in Hoare’s Bank, Fleet Street, London, from 1726; MP Salisbury 1734-41; Grand Tour (Italy) 1738-41; m. 1st, 11 Apr 1726 Hon. Anne Masham, sister of Samuel Masham, 2nd Baron Masham (qv); m. 2nd, 5 Jul 1728 Susan, dau. of Stephen Colt; d. 8 Sep 1785. DNB Missing Persons.
HOBART, GEORGE, 3RD EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, elder son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his first wife; b. 8 Sep 1731; adm. Mar 1738/9 (Watts'); KS (Capt. ) 1746; left 1750; MP St. Ives 1754-61, Beeralston 1761-80; Secretary to his elder brother John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), when Ambassador at St. Petersburg Aug 1762 – Jan 1765; manager of the Italian Opera in London; travelling in Italy 1768; succ. brother as 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire 3 Aug 1793; member, Society of Dilettanti 1769; m. 22 May 1757 Albinia, eldest dau. of Lord Vere Bertie; d. 14 Oct 1804. DNB.
HOBART, HON. HENRY, younger son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv), and his second wife; b. 23 Oct 1738; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1747; left 1747; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Jul 1756, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1756 – resigned 16 Mar 1757; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Mar 1757; MP Norwich 16 Sep 1786 – 9 Mar 1787, and from 28 Mar 1787; Chairman, Committee of Ways and Means, House of Commons, from Apr 1791; m. 22 Jul 1761 Ann Margaret, dau. of John Bristow MP, Quiddenham Hall, Norfolk; d. 10 May 1799.
HOBART, JOHN, 1ST EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, son of Sir Henry Hobart, Bart., MP, and Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Joseph Maynard, Clifton Reynes, Bucks.; b. 11 Oct 1693; succ. father as 5th baronet 21 Aug 1698; at school under Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1751); Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. nob. 20 May 1710, matr. 1710; MP St. Ives 1715-27, Norfolk 1727 – 28 May 1728; a Commissioner of Trade and Foreign Plantations 4 Oct 1721 – Aug 1727; KB 27 May 1725; Treasurer of the Chamber, Royal Household 23 Sep 1727 – Dec 1744; Assay Master, Duchy of Cornwall 1727-38; created Baron Hobart 28 May 1728; Lord Lieut., Norfolk, from 13 Dec 1739; Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners from 24 Dec 1744; Privy Councillor 3 Jan 1744/5; created Earl of Buckinghamshire 5 Sep 1746; m. 1st, 8 Nov 1717 Judith, dau. of Robert Britiffe MP, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, Recorder of Norwich; m. 2nd, 10 Feb 1727/8 Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Bristow MP; d. 22 Sep 1756. DNB.
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.
HOBHOUSE, JOHN CAM, 1ST BARON BROUGHTON, eldest son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart. , MP, and his first wife Charlotte, dau. of Samuel Cam, Chantry House, near Bradford, Wilts. ; b. 27 Jun 1786; adm. 27 Jan 1802 (Clapham); in school list May 1803; left 1803; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 18 Oct 1803, matr. Easter 1806; Hulsean Prize 1808; BA 1808; MA 1811; founded the Cambridge Whig Club; when at Cambridge became an intimate friend of Lord Byron, with whom he travelled in Greece and the Mediterranean in 1809-10; adm. Middle Temple 4 Feb 1806; a partner in firm Whitbread & Co. , brewers; contested Westminster as Radical candidate at 1819 by-election; imprisoned in Newgate Prison for breach of privilege 14 Dec 1819 – 19 Jan 1820; MP (Radical, subsequently Whig) Westminster 1820-33, Nottingham 1834-47, Harwich 1848-51; active member of Greek Committee in London 1823; succeeded father as 2nd baronet 15 Aug 1831; Secretary at War 1 Feb 1832 – Apr 1833; Privy Councillor 23 Feb 1832; Chief Secretary for Ireland 28 Mar – 17 May 1833; Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests 19 Jul – 31 Dec 1834; President, Board of Control 29 Apr 1835 – Sep 1841, Jul 1846 – Feb 1852; created Baron Broughton 26 Feb 1851; GCB 23 Feb 1852; as Byron’s executor, advised the destruction of Byron’s Memoirs 1824, and as Byron’s best man drew up a reply to Lady Byron’s Remarks 1830; FRS 19 May 1814; member, Society of Dilettanti 1839; one of founders of Geographical Society 1830; is said to have invented the phrase “His Majesty’s Opposition”; his Commonplace Book when at the School, containing the themes set, extracts from books, and occasional translations, is in the British Library, Additional MSS; author, Recollections of a Long Life, 1865, and other works; m. 26 Feb 1828 Lady Julia Hay, youngest dau. of George Hay, 7th Marquis of Tweeddale (S); d. 3 Jun 1869. DNB.
HOPTON, EDWARD COPE, eldest son of Richard Hopton MP, Canons Frome, Herefs., and Elizabeth, widow of William Gregory, Howe Caple, Herefs., and dau. of Thomas Geers MP, Bridge Solers, Herefs., Serjeant at Law; bapt. Canons Frome, Herefs. 9 Feb 1707 [or 1707/8 ?]; adm. (aged 14) May 1722 (surname misread as Horton by Russell Barker and Stenning); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Oct 1725; MP Hereford 1741-7; m. 20 Feb 1732 Mary, only child of Timothy Briggenshaw, St. John, Bredwardine, Herefs.; d. 24 Apr 1754.
HORNE, SIR (WILLIAM) EDGAR, BART., eldest son of Edgar Horne, Russell Square, London, auctioneer and surveyor, and his first wife Maria, widow of Thomas Eversfield, Westminster; b. 21 Jan 1856; adm. 23 Sep 1869 (James'); left Whitsun 1872; entered father’s office and on father’s retirement became head of firm; FSI 1882, President 1911; Chairman, United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, in last year of their existence; member, Westminster City Council, Mayor 1923-4, Alderman from 1925; MP (Cons) Guildford Jan 1910-22; chairman, Prudential Assurance Co.; created baronet 25 Mar 1929; DL Sutherlandshire; a Governor of the School from 1913; a Busby Trustee from 1925; m. 7 Oct 1886 Margery, dau. of George Anderson May, Elford, Staffs.; d. 26 Sep 1941.