Benjamin Hobhouse [SEP] date of death
Benjamin Hobhouse
Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1757–1831) was an English politician.
Life.
The son of John Hobhouse, a merchant at Bristol, he received his education at Bristol grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1778. In 1781 he proceeded M.A., and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple.
At the general election of 1796 Hobhouse stood for parliament at Bristol without success, but in February 1797 he was elected M.P. for Bletchingley in Surrey, in
Gyffard in the County of Wiltshire. However, he had no sons and on his death the barony became extinct, while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, the third Baronet. The latter's son, the fourth Baronet, was also a noted Liberal politician and held office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and as Postmaster General.
Thomas Hobhouse, son of the first Baronet by his second wife, was a politician.
Hobhouse baronets, of Westbury (1812).
- Sir Benjamin Hobhouse