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Hobart, Robert, 1760-1816
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.
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