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Edmund Hobhouse
Edmund Hobhouse (17 April, 1817 – 20 April, 1904) was the English-born bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, and an antiquary.
Biography.
Edmund Hobhouse, born in London on 17 April 1817, was elder brother of Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse, and was second son of Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary of state for the home department (Home Office). He entered Eton in 1824, but left it in 1830 from ill-health and read with tutors.
sons included Arthur Hobhouse (1819–1904), lord of appeal, Edmund Hobhouse (1817–1904), bishop and antiquary, and Reginald Hobhouse (1818-1895), first Archdeacon of Bodmin.
Hadspen House was finally sold by the Hobhouse family in 2014.