and is the author of the following: Lovers Revenge, a Pastoral (1737); Jephtha, an Oratorio (1737); Phœbe, a Pastoral (1748); The Force of Truth, an Oratorio (1764). He also revised Lillo's Arden of Feversham, and wrote the Fifth Act of Miller's Mahomet.
HOBBEY. See HOBY.
Admitted 7 February, 1776.
Second son of John Hobhouse of Westbury-on-Trim, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Bristol and Oxford. On 25 May, 1781, he was called to the Bar, and was Reader at the Inn in 1825. In 1797 he entered Parliament, and devoted the rest of his life to political affairs. He was Secretary of the Board of Control, and afterwards Chairman of Committees under Addington, and was made a Baronet in 1812. He died in Berkeley Square 14 Aug. 1831. He was the father of John Cam Hobhouse (q.v.), afterwards Lord Broughton. He left behind him a treatise on Heresy as cognisable in the Spiritual Courts, and many political pamphlets and tracts.
Admitted 20 January, 1790.
Only son of Henry Hobhouse of Hatspen House, Somerset, Barrister, of the Middle Temple. He was born at Clifton 12 April, 1776. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he was created a D.C.L. in 1827. He was called to the Bar 23 Jan. 1801. After holding the post of Solicitor to the Treasury, he was appointed permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1817, which office he held till his retirement in 1827. In 1828 he was created a Privy Councillor. He edited the State Papers of Henry VIII., published by the Record Commissioners, and under his direction a permanent system for the arrangement of State Papers was established. He died 13 April, 1854. His fourth son, Arthur, was created Baron Hobhouse in 1885.
Admitted 4 February, 1806.
Eldest son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, of the Middle Temple, Bart. {q.v.). He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge, where he graduated, and obtained the Hulsean Prize in 1808. He was a friend of Lord Byron, and spent some time with him on the Continent, and was "best man" at his wedding, and to him the poet dedicated the fourth canto of Childe Harold. He unsuccessfully contested Westminster in 1810, and subsequently took an active part in politics as a Radical. For the publication of a pamphlet in 1819, entitled A Trifling Mistake, he was committed to Newgate as guilty of a breach of privilege. On his release he was returned for Westminster. He took an active part in the debates of the House, and in 1832 became Secretary for War, but exchanged that post for the Secretaryship of Ireland in 1833. In Lord Melbourne's administration he became Commissioner of Woods and Forests (1834). He was present at the first council of Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace, 1837, and has left an interesting account of it. He was created Baron Broughton in 1851, and in 1852 was made a K.C.B.
