Thomas Hobhouse

Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse (19 June 1807 – 31 December 1876) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Hobhouse was the son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Amelia, daughter of Reverend Joshua Parry. The Whig politician and pamphleteer Lord Broughton was his half-brother.[1] He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1837 to 1841[2] and for Lincoln from 1848 to 1852.[3]

Hobhouse died in December 1876, aged 69. He never married.

References

  1. ↑ thepeerage.com Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse
  2. ↑ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Rochester to Ryedale
  3. ↑ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Lichfield and Tamworth to London and Westminster South

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Twisden Hodges
Ralph Bernal		 Member of Parliament for Rochester
1837–1841
With: Ralph Bernal		 Succeeded by
James Douglas
William Bodkin
Preceded by
Colonel Sibthorp
Charles Seely		 Member of Parliament for Lincoln
1848–1852
With: Colonel Sibthorp		 Succeeded by
Colonel Sibthorp
George Heneage


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