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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.

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.

HOBMAN, FRANCIS, son of Thomas Hobman, St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London; bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 14 Dec 1593 (IGI); at school under Ireland two years; KS in 1609 (Chapter Muniments 41289); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Nov 1609, aged 16, scholar Mich. 1609 - Mich. 1617; BA 1613/4; MA 1617; BD 1628; Junior Fellow, Gonville and Caius Coll. Lady Day 1609 – Mich. 1628; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 1 Mar 1617/8, priest (Peterborough) 12 Mar 1619/20; Curate, Barnwell, Cambs. , 1620; Rector of Greenford Parva, Middlesex 4 Apr 1621-49; Rector of St,Michael Coslany, Norwich 1625; Rector of Foulden, Norfolk 1627; Rector of All Saints, Weeting, Norfolk, from 23 Jun 1637 and of St. Mary’s, Weeting, Norfolk, from 17 Jul 1651; buried St. Mary’s, Weeting 23 Nov 1669.

HOBSON, ---; b.; in school list 1744.

Hobson, Anthony William Fairlie, son of Richard Fairlie Hobson, of Rutland Toorak, Melbourne, Australia, by Nina St. John Helison, daughter of William Senford Sly, of Mungy, Queensland; b. May 7, 1900; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (A); left July 1918; in the employment of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd., at Buenos Aires; m. Oct. 2, 1928, Bertha Elizabeth, daughter of Manuel Piera, of Buenos Aires; d. 19 July 1987.

Hobson, Desmond Senford Fairlie, brother of Anthony William Fairlie Hobson (qv); b. 15 Mar. 1911; adm. Sept. 1924 (A); left Apr. 1929; Brit. American Tobacco Co. 1929, dir. 1956; m. 1940 Margaret, d. of William Nicol Elder of Buenos Aires; d. Mar. 1998.

HOBSON, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1716. [Presumably elder brother of, or close kin to, Ralph Hobson (qv), adm. same month].

Hobson, Eric Hamilton, elder son of Hamilton McArthur Hobson, of Cookham Dean, Berks, by Alice Ellen, daughter of William Chalkley, of Enfield, Middlesex; b. April 1, 1895; adm. April 28, 1910 (G); left Dec. 1910; enlisted in 71st Batt. Canadian Infantry June 3, 1915; Cpl. July 30, 1915; Transport Sgt. May 14, 1916; transferred to the 54th Batt. March 23, 1917, and went out to the western front in the following month.

Hobson, Frederick Greig, elder son of Thomas Frederick Hobson, of Kensington, barrister­-at-law, by Mary Innes, daughter of John Borthwick Greig, of Hampstead, Writer to the Signet; b. Aug. 6, 1891; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (G); left (with Triplett) July 1910; New Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1910; B.A. 1914; enlisted as a Motorcyclist Despatch Rider Aug. 6, 1914; Cpl., promoted Sgt. Sept. 18, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorks) Regt. Dec. 3, 1914, and seconded to the Signal Service same day; Lieut. Feb. 25, 1915; Staff-Capt. Dec. 13, 1915; Capt. April 15, 1916; Brigade Major July 14, 1917; went out to the western front in Aug. 1914, and served continuously in France until April 1917, when he was invalided home; mentioned in despatches; D.S.O. Aug. 25, 1916; St. Thomas's Hospital; Theodore Williams Scholar in Pathology 1918; M.A., B. M., M.R.C.P. 1919; M.R.C.S. 1921; D. M., F.R.C.P. 1923; Physician, Radcliffe Infirmary, and Litchfield Lecturer in Medicine, Oxford; m. May 9, 1916, Audrey Brunel Horsley, eldest daughter of Francis Gotch, F.R.S., Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Oxford Univ.; d. June 26, 1961.