Robert Hobart

Sir Robert Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet KCVO CB (13 September 1836 – 4 August 1928) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Biography

Hobart was the oldest son of Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart, third son of the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, and Charlotte Selina Moore, daughter of Richard Moore. He was a civil servant in the War Office between 1860 and 1900, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1885. In October 1901 the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, appointed him a Secretary to the Earl Marshal´s office, to work on preparations for the 1902 coronation of King Edward VII.^[1] He received the 1902 Coronation medal and was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) for his services.

Hobart was the Official Verderer of the New Forest and sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for New Forest from 1906 until 1910.

On 14 July 1914, he was created a Baronet, of Langdown, in the County of Southampton.^[2]

Election results

New Forest by-election, 1905[3] Electorate 10,818
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Francis Compton	4,539	51.1	n/a
	Liberal	Sir Robert Henry Hobart	4,340	48.9	n/a
Turnout			8,879	82.1	n/a
Majority			199	2.2	n/a
	Conservative hold		Swing	n/a

General Election January 1906[4] Electorate 11,030
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Robert Henry Hobart	4,949	50.2	+1.3
	Conservative	Henry Francis Compton	4,901	49.8	-1.3
Turnout			9,850	89.3	+7.2
Majority			48	0.4	2.6
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+1.3

Family

On 13 May 1869, Hobart married Hon. Julia Trollope, oldest daughter of the 1st Baron Kesteven. He died in August 1928 aged 91 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his only son Claud.

References

1. "The Earl Marshal" The Times (London). Saturday, 12 October 1901. (36584), p. 9.
2. The London Gazette: no. 28854. p. 5962. 31 July 1914.
3. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig
4. British parliamentary election results 1885-1918 by Craig

• "thePeerage". Retrieved 13 February 2009.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Hobart