Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

HILTON, John. b. Sible Hedingham, Essex 22 Sep. 1807; ed. at Chelmsford gr. sch. and Boulogne-sur-Mer; studied at Guy’s 1824, M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1828, made dissections of the body which were reproduced in wax for Guy’s museum, assist. surgeon 1844, full surgeon 1849; professor of surgery at R.C.S. 14 July 1859, president 1867; in practice at New Broad st., city of London; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 14 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1839; author of On rest and pain, a course of lectures 1863, 3 ed. 1880; Notes on the functional relations of portions of the cranium 1855; The Hunterian Oration 1867. d. Hedingham house, Clapham common 14 Sep. 1878. Proc. of Med. Chir. Soc. viii, 388–90 (1875); Medical Times, ii, 422 (1878); The Medical profession in all countries, i, No. 17 (1873).

HIME, Benjamin. Musical publisher; vocal composer; wrote I see them on their winding ways, song 1830; Let us hope for the best, song 1835; O the Forester’s life is the life for me 1855 and 20 other pieces. d. 30 Victoria st. Manchester 1871.

HINCHLIFF, John Ely. b. 1777; chief assistant in studio of John Flaxman 1806–26; completed some of Flaxman’s unfinished works 1826; exhibited 36 works at R.A. and 9 at B.I. 1814–49; among his sculptures were Christian and Apollyon 1815, Leonidas, Menelaus and Paris, and Theseus and Hippodamia; made many mural tablets and sepulchral monuments. d. Mornington place, 185 Hampstead road, London 23 Nov. 1867.

HINCHLIFF, John James (son of the preceding). b. 1805; in hydrographic department of admiralty; executed engravings for Beattie’s Castles and abbeys of England 1842, and Gastineau’s Picturesque scenery of Wales 1860. d. Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset 16 Dec. 1875.

HINCHLIFF, Thomas Woodbine (eld. son of Chamberlain Hinchliff). b. 1826; president of Alpine club; F.R.G.S.; author of Summer months among the Alps 1857; South American sketches 1863; Over the sea and far away, wanderings round the world 1876. d. Aix les Bains, Savoy 8 May 1882. Proc. of R. Geog. Soc. iv, 424 (1882).

HINCKS, Rev. Edward (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks 1767–1857). b. Cork 19 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1810, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1829, fellow 1813–9; R. of Ardtrea 1819–26; R. of Killeleagh, co. Down 1826 to death; a pioneer in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions; studied Assyrian monuments 1846 and discovered the names of Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar; discovered conjointly with Sir H. C. Rawlinson the Persian cuneiform vowel system; the results of his investigations were printed in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1833–65; author of Report to Trustees of British museum on cylinders and terra cotta tablets 1854; Letter on the Polyphony of Assyrio-Babylonian writings 1863 and 25 other works; granted civil list pension of £100, 20 April 1854. d. Killeleagh 3 Dec. 1866. Webb’s Irish Biography (1878) 251; G.M. iii, 122 (1867).

HINCKS, Sir Francis (brother of the preceding). b. Cork 9 May 1807; ed. at Royal Belfast Institution; clerk to a shipowner, Belfast; went to Canada 1830, opened a warehouse in Toronto; founded and edited the Toronto Examiner 1838; member for county of Oxford in Canadian legislature, March 1841 to Nov. 1855; inspector general of public accounts 1842–3 and 1848–54; started the Montreal Pilot 1844; prime minister of Canada 1851–5; governor of Windward Islands 1855–62; governor of British Guiana 1862–9; C.B. 23 July 1862; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869; finance minister for Dominion of Canada 1869–73; president of City Bank of Montreal 1874 which failed; editor of Journal of Commerce, Montreal; author of 5 pamphlets and of Reminiscenses of my public life 1884. d. Montreal 18 Aug. 1885. Dublin Univ. Mag. vol. 88, p. 534, portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 413–14 (1855), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) p. 186.

HINCKS, Ven. Thomas (son of the succeding). b. 1796; R. of Finvoy, Connor to 1865; R. of Billy, Connor 1865 to death; archdeacon of Connor 1865 to death. d. the archdeaconry, Bushmills, co. Antrim 28 March 1882.

HINCKS, Rev. Thomas Dix (son of Edward Hincks, d. 1772). b. Bachelor’s quay, Dublin 24 June 1767; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1784–8 and at Hackney New coll. 1788–90; presbyterian minister Cork 1790; kept a school at Cork 1791–1803; lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy, Royal Cork institution 1810–13; tutor Fermoy academy 1815–21; classical head master Belfast Academical Instit. 1821–36 and professor of Hebrew there 1822–49; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Letters occasioned by the circulation of Paine’s Age of Reason 1795, 2 ed. 1796; An introduction to ancient geography 1825, 7 ed. 1855; Rudiments of Greek grammar 1825 and other books. d. Murray’s ter. Belfast 24 Feb. 1857. bur. Killeleagh.

HINCKS, Rev. William (son of the preceding). b. Cork, May 1794; presbyterian minister Cork 1815, at Exeter 1816–22 and at Renshaw st. Liverpool 1822–7; professor of natural philosophy at Manchester coll. York 1827–39; editor of The Enquirer 1842–9; professor of natural history, Queen’s coll. Cork 1849–53 and at University coll. Toronto 1853–71; contributed to Canadian Journal 1854–65. d. Toronto 10 Sep. 1871. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 186–7.

HIND, Rev. John. b. Cumberland 1796; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 1813, scholar 1815, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fellow of Sid. Suss. coll.; moderator 1822, 1823, 1826, examiner 1824, 1827; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; author of The principles of the differential and integral calculus 1827; The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry 5 ed. 1855; The principles and practice of arithmetic 1832, 8 ed. 1856. d. 22 Trumpington st. Cambridge 17 Dec. 1866. Light Blue, ii, 120 (1867).

HINDLEY, Charles. b. Fairfield 1800; classical and mathematical tutor Moravian establishment, Gracehill, Ireland to 1819; a cotton spinner 1819; a founder of the Aston and Dukinfield mechanics’ instit. 1825; president of Peace soc.; contested Ashton-under-Lyne 14 Dec. 1832; contested Warrington 7 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ashton 9 Jany. 1835 to death. d. Dartmouth house, Queen st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1857. Dr. Todd and the late member for Ashton. Fatal effects of the stimulating treatment of disease. By A. B. Granville 1860.

HINDLIP, Henry Allsopp, 1 Baron (3 son of Samuel Allsopp of Burton on Trent, brewer 1780–1838). b. 19 Feb. 1811; head of firm of Allsopp and Sons, brewers, Burton; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1874–80, contested it 1880; cr. a baronet 7 May 1880; cr. baron Hindlip of Hindlip in the co. of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the co. of Derby 15 Feb. 1886. d. Hindlip hall near Worcester 3 April 1887. London Figaro 9 April 1887 p. 4 portrait.

HINDMARCH, William Mathewson (son of Wm. Hindmarch of Sunderland, brewer). b. Fan quay near Sunderland 10 June 1803; articled to Thomas Collin of Sunderland, attorney; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1832, bencher 12 April 1862; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 7 Dec. 1861; recorder of York, Oct. 1865 to death; author of A treatise on the law relating to patent privileges for the sole use of inventions 1846; Observations on the defects of the patent laws, with suggestions for reform 1851. d. Aix la Chapelle 27 Aug. 1866. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxiii, 307 (1867).

HINDMARSH, Sir John. b. 1786; entered navy May 1793; served in Lord Howe’s action and in battle of the Nile when though but a Midshipman he was in temporary command of the Bellerophon; captain 3 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 May 1836; founded the colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836 and was governor to 16 July 1838; lieut. governor of Heligoland 28 Sep. 1840 to 7 March 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 Aug. 1851; R.A. on half pay 31 Jany. 1856. d. Denbigh place, Belgravia, London 29 July 1860. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 91.

HINDS, Right Rev. Samuel (son of Abel Hinds of Barbadoes). b. Barbadoes 1795; ed. at Charterhouse and Queen’s coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1831; missionary to the Negroes of Barbadoes; principal of Codrington college Barbadoes; vice-principal of St. Alban hall Ox. 1827–31; domestic chaplain to archbishop Whately in Dublin 1831–3 and 1843; V. of Ardeley, Herts. 5 Feb. 1835 to March 1843; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral Dublin 1843; V. of united parishes of Castlenock, Clonsilla and Mullahidart 1843–8; dean of Carlisle 27 Sep. 1848; bishop of Norwich 26 Sep. 1849, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec. 1849, resigned 1857; author of The history of the rise and progress of Christianity 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1846; Sonnets and other poems 1834; The three temples of the one true God contrasted 1830, 3 ed. 1857 and 25 other books. d. 40 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 7 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. xv, 376 (1849), portrait, lx, 163, (1872).

HINGSTON, Edward Peron. b. about 1823; attended lectures at King’s coll. Lond.; contributed to periodicals 1841–42; manager for professor Anderson the wizard of the north, acting manager for him at Covent Garden, Dec. 1855 to 5 March 1856 when house burnt; went with Anderson to America and Australia 1856–64; manager for Artemus Ward, American humorist in America and England 1864 to Jany. 1867; managed “the Hall by the sea,” Margate; stage manager at St. James’s theatre 1870; lessee and manager of Opera Comique theatre, Oct. 1872 to Dec. 1873; manager at Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; edited many works by R. H. Newell, Mark Twain and Artemus Ward 1865–76; author of The Siddons of Modern Italy, Adelaide Ristori 1856; The Genial Showman, Being reminiscences of Artemus Ward 1870. d. Crowndale road, Camden town, London 9 June 1876. Era 18 June 1876 p. 10; Illust. Sporting news, vi, 473 (1867), portrait.

HINTON, James (3 child of Rev. John Howard Hinton 1791–1873). b. Reading 1822; ed. at Harpenden; cashier at a woollen draper’s shop in Whitechapel 1838–9; clerk in an insurance office in the city; M.R.C.S. 1848; assist. surgeon at Newport, Essex 1847; in the West Indies 1848–50; partner with Mr. Fisher in Bartholomew Close, London 1850–3; in practice at 18 Savile row, London 1853 to 1874; aural surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1863; the chief aurist in London from date of Toynbee’s death to March 1874 when he retired; author of Man and his dwelling place 1859, 3 ed. 1872; Life in nature 1862; The mystery of pain 1866, 3 ed. 1879; Thoughts on health 1871; The question of aural surgery 1874. d. St. Michael’s, Madeira 16 Dec. 1875. bur. at Ponta Delgada in the island of Sao Miguel. Life and letters of James Hinton, edited by Ellice Hopkins (1878), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 99, 101 (1876), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90, portrait.

HINTON, Rev. John Howard (son of Rev. James Hinton, congregational minister 1761–1823). b. Oxford 24 March 1791; ed. at Bristol coll. 1811–13 and at Edin. univ., M.A. 1816; baptist minister at Haverfordwest 1816–20, at Hosier st. chapel, Reading 1820–37, at Devonshire sq. chapel, London 1837–63, at Reading 1863–8; resided at Bristol 1868 to death; sec. of the Baptist Union many years; author of The work of the Holy Spirit in conversion considered 1830, 3 ed. 1841; The epistle to the Hebrews freely rendered 1843; Athanasius, or Four books on immortality 1849; An exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1863; author with his brother Rev. Isaac Taylor Hinton d. 1847 of The history and topography of the United States 2 vols. Boston 1834, 2 ed. New York 1853. d. 1 Redland terrace, Clifton, Bristol 17 Dec. 1873. Baptist Handbook (1875) 277–80; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1874 pp. 35–6, portrait; S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men of Bristol coll. (1884) 238.

HIRST, William. b. near Huddersfield 1777; a cloth dresser and manufacturer at Leeds 1810; commenced finishing his goods by machinery 1813; introduced spinning mules, Lewis’ machine and hydraulic presses into his works 1813–25; made a large fortune which he lost in 1825; freely communicated his improved process to the public and was called the father of the Yorkshire woollen trade; d. in poverty at Leeds 29 Aug. 1858. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 472–4.

HISLOP, Rev. Stephen (son of Stephen Hislop, mason). b. Duns, Berwickshire 8 Sep. 1817; ed. at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities 1834–9; a tutor; sec. to Ladies’ soc. for female education in India 1843; Free church of Scotland minister 1844; missionary to Nagpoor, Central India 1844–58 and 1861 to death; opened a school at Nagpoor 1846 which grew into Hislop coll.; studied the languages of the aboriginal tribes; made discoveries in geology and natural history; contributed papers to Royal Asiatic Soc. Journal 1835 etc. and to Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1854–61; author of Papers relating to the Aboriginal tribes of the central provinces 1866; drowned, in attempting to cross a stream 20 miles south of Nagpoor 4 Sep. 1863. R. Hunter’s Hist of Mission of Free Ch. to India (1873) pp. 24, 384; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1864 pp. xxxix-xl; G. Smith’s Life of S. Hislop (1889), portrait.

HITCHCOCK, Richard (son of Rodney Hitchcock of Springvale, co. Cork, farmer, d. Aug. 1853). b. Blennerville near Tralee, March 1825; devoted himself to the study of archæology of his native country, using his pen and pencil in their description; assistant librarian Trinity coll. Dublin; assistant to geological society of Ireland; contributed papers to proc. of Kilkenny Archæol. Soc.; d. Roundtown near Dublin 3 Dec. 1856.

HITCHIN, George. b. 1785; editor of the Hampshire Chronicle 1814 to death. d. High st. Winchester 2 May 1858. Hampshire Chronicle 8 May 1858 pp. 4, 5.

HITCHINS, Benjamin Robertson. b. 1792; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. colonel 47 N.I. 12 May 1842 to 2 Jany. 1854; colonel 1 European regiment 2 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 26 Aug. 1866. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 July 1867 aged 75.

HITCHMAN, Francis. b. 1839; connected with Western Morning News, Plymouth; editor of Manchester Courier; assist. editor Standard, London; wrote for the reviews and magazines, London; an active member of the Primrose League; author of Pius the ninth. A biography 1878; The public life of the earl of Beaconsfield 2 vols. 1879, 2 ed. 1881; Eighteenth century studies. Essays 1881; Richard F. Burton, his life, travels and explorations 2 vols. 1888. d. London, Dec. 1890.

HOARE, Charles (2 son of Sir Richard Hoare of Barn Elms, Surrey, 1 bart. 1735–87). b. 25 Aug. 1767; partner in banking house of Hoare & Co. 37 Fleet st. London, afterwards senior partner to death; F.S.A. Jany. 1792; built Luscombe house near Dawlish, Devon 179-; F.R.S. 1809. d. Luscombe house 16 Nov. 1851.

HOARE, Charles Hugh (3 son of George Matthew Hoare, brewer, London). b. 24 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox, B.A. 1841; manager of his father’s brewery and ultimately sole acting partner; member of All England Eleven; president and treasurer of Surrey cricket club; member of committee of Lord’s. d. Romsey, Hants. 4 April 1869.

HOARE, Ven. Charles James (3 son of Henry Hoare, banker 1750–1828). b. London 14 July 1781; admitted a pensioner at St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 May 1799, 2 wr. and 2 Smith’s pr. 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; Lady Margaret fellow of his coll. 24 March 1806 to 4 July 1811; V. of Blandford Forum, Dorset 1807 to March 1821; V. of Godstone, Surrey, March 1821 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 10 Nov. 1829; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 2 Dec. 1831; archdeacon of Surrey 14 Nov. 1847, resigned 1860; author of The shipwreck of St. Paul. A Seatonian prize poem 1808, 2 ed. 1860; Sermons on the Christian character 1821; The holy scriptures, their nature, authority and use 1845, 2 ed. 1857 and other books. d. Godstone 18 Jany. 1865.

HOARE, Very Rev. Edward Newenham (4 son of Rev. John Hoare, chancellor of St. Mary’s and Vicar general of diocese of Limerick, d. 9 March 1813 aged 47). b. 11 April 1802; archdeacon of Ardfert 23 Dec. 1836 to 1839; dean of Achonry 14 June 1839 to 1850; dean of Waterford 26 Nov. 1850 to death; edited The Christian Herald, Dublin 5 vols. 1830–5; author of The tendency of the principles advocated in the Tracts for the Times considered 1841; Remarks on mis-statements as to scriptural education in Ireland 1850; Practical suggestions with view to removal of objections to the working of the national education system of education in Ireland 1854. d. Lauranah villa, Hamlet road, Upper Norwood 1 Feb. 1877.

HOARE, Edward Wallis (2 son of Sir Edward Hoare, bart. 1745–1814). b. Cork 4 May 1779; entered navy May 1790; when signal lieut. of the London condemned to death by the delegates of the mutineers at Spithead 1797; served in Egypt 1801, at Isle of France 1811; landed on island of Java and routed the enemy 5 June 1811; on half pay 13 Aug. 1812; captain 13 May 1847; admiral on half pay 9 June 1860. d. Upton near Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 Jany. 1870.

HOARE, Rev. George Tooker (2 son of Ven. Charles James Hoare 1781–1865). b. 27 July 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; P.C. of Tandridge, Surrey 1853–65; V. of Godstone, Surrey 1865 to death; edited Dare and endure 1868; author of The village museum, or how we gather profit with pleasure 1858; A letter written for the people, hints on letter writing 1860; True stories of brave deeds 1870. d. Aix la Chapelle 9 Aug. 1881.

HOARE, John Gurney (2 son of Samuel Hoare, banker 1783–1847). b. 7 May 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; banker Fleet st. London; president of Guy’s hospital, Dec. 1867 to death. d. Biarritz, France 17 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 211, 259 (1875).

HOARE, Joseph (brother of the preceding). b. 21 March 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; banker of firm of Hoare & Co. Fleet st.; M.P. Hull 30 April 1859 but unseated on petition Aug. 1859; contested Manchester 18 Nov. 1868; president Hampstead conservative assoc. d. Child’s Hill house, Hampstead 21 Jany. 1886. Times 25 Jany. 1886 p. 7.

HOARE, Rev. William Henry (2 son of William Henry Hoare 1776–1819). b. Penzance 31 Oct. 1809; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; 31 wr. 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, fellow of his coll. 25 March 1833 to 1835; C. of All Saints, Southampton 1841; commissary to bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia; diocesan inspector of diocese of Chichester; founder and sec. of Worth clerical association; author of Harmony of the Apocalypse with the prophecies of holy scriptures 1848; Outlines of ecclesiastical history before the Reformation 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The veracity of the book of Genesis, with the life of the inspired historian 1860 and other books. d. Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex 22 Feb. 1888. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 244.

HOBART, Augustus Charles (3 son of 6 earl of Buckinghamshire 1793–1885). b. Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leics. 1 April 1822; ed. at Cheam; entered navy March 1835; employed in suppressing slave trade 1835–43; present during Russian war 1854–5; commanded mortar boats at attack on Sveaborg; attached to coast guard at Dingle, co. Kerry 1855–61; captain 23 May 1863 when he retired on h.p.; ran the blockade and carried cargoes into Wilmington and Charleston, U.S. America 1863–5; naval adviser to Sultan of Turkey 1867; suppressed the Cretan rebellion 1867; full admiral with title of Pasha 1869; reorganised Turkish fleet and manœuvred against the Russian ships in Black sea 1877; mushir or marshal of Turkish empire 8 Jany. 1881, first christian who ever held that dignity; name struck off British navy list 1867, 1877, restored 1874 and 1884 when he became retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884; president of Turkish admiralty board; author of Never caught, By Captain Roberts 1867; The torpedo scare 1885. d. Milan, Italy 19 June 1886. Sketches of my life, By Hobart Pasha 1887, portrait; Biographical Mag., No. 1, June 1877 pp. 35–45; I.L.N. lxx, 433, 435 (1877), portrait.

HOBART, Vere Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Welbourn, Lincs. 8 Dec. 1818; ed. at Cheam and Trin. coll. Ox., scholar 1836–42, B.A. 1840; clerk in board of trade 1842 to 1 Oct. 1863; known as lord Hobart from 1849; private sec. to Sir George Grey; sec. of states for colonies 1854–55; a writer in the press on Irish questions from 1850; with Mr. Foster, paymaster general, investigated and advised on Turkish finance 1861; director general of Ottoman bank to 1871; governor of presidency of Madras 14 March 1872 to death; author of Essay on the Alabama claims 1870; Political essays 1866, Reprinted 1877. d. of typhoid fever at Madras 27 April 1875. Essays. With Biographical sketch by his widow 2 vols. 1885, 2 portraits.

HOBBS, John William. b. Henley on Thames 1 Aug. 1799; chorister Canterbury cath.; tenor singer; sang at Norwich musical festival 1813; singer at King’s and St. John’s coll. Cam. and St. George’s chapel Windsor; gentleman of the chapel royal, London 1827; lay vicar Westminster abbey 1836; well known glee singer; composer of Wake, Lady, Wake 1845; Phillis is my only joy 1848; For these and all Thy mercies, A grace 1851; When Delia sings 1862; The captive Greek girl and 70 other pieces. d. 20 Duppas Hill ter. Croydon 12 Jany. 1877.

HOBBS, Thomas Francis (1 son of Capt. Hobbs of Barnaby house, King’s county). Second lieut. 21 foot 15 Jany. 1847, which regiment he commanded at the attack on the Redan 18 June 1855; lieut. colonel 14 depot battalion 8 March 1859; lieut. col. 6 foot 6 Feb. 1863 to death; connected with the suppression of the outbreak in Jamaica, became of unsound mind 1866; author of The subaltern’s hand-book and guide to the military examination. Belfast 1859; threw himself overboard from the ‘Tyne’ off the coast of Hayti 25 April 1866.

HOBBS, William Fisher (son of a yeoman). b. White Colne, Essex 1809; farmer at Marks hall, Coggeshall 1831; grew improved and more productive wheat; famous for his pigs known as the Fisher Hobbs pigs; V.P. of Royal agricultural society to death; member of council of Smithfield club to death; a scientific farmer, using the best machinery. d. Boxted lodge near Colchester 11 Oct. 1866. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 577–79 (1867).

HOBHOUSE, Henry (only son of Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen house, Somerset 1742–92). b. Clifton 12 April 1776; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1799, D.C.L. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1801; solicitor to H.M. customs 1806–12; solicitor to the Treasury 1812–17; under sec. of state for home department 28 June 1817 to July 1827 when he resigned on a pension of £1000; keeper of the state papers 23 May 1826 to death; P.C. 28 June 1828; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions, resigned 1845; one of Ecclesiastical comrs. for England 1838 to death; commissioner of the records 10 June 1852 when he commenced a new system for their arrangement. d. Hadspen house, Somerset 13 April 1854. G.M. xlii, 79–80 (1854); Times 18 April 1854 p. 9.