Henry_William_Hobhouse

Henry William Hobhouse

Henry William Hobhouse

British Whig politician

Henry William Hobhouse (8 August 1791 – 22 May 1868)[1] was a British Whig politician.[2][3][4]

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Hobhouse was the son of Benjamin Hobhouse and Charlottee née Cam, daughter of Samuel Cam; and he was also a brother of John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton. In 1814, he married Mary Anne Palmer, daughter of John Palmer, and they had at least two children: John Byron Hobhouse (1817–1842); and Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet (1825–1916).[5]

After unsuccessfully contesting Finsbury in 1835,[6] Hobhouse was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Hereford at the general election in May 1841 but resigned five months later by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[7][4][8]

He was also in the Honourable East India Company Service.[5]

References

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    Rayment, Leigh (13 October 2017). "The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "H"". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    "General Election". Morning Post. 2 July 1841. p. 7. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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    "District News". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 3 July 1841. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 6 November 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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    Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 140–142. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
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    Lundy, Darryl (28 March 2012). "Henry William Hobhouse". The Peerage. Archived from the original on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
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    "Finsbury Election". Morning Advertiser. 3 January 1835. p. 3. Retrieved 4 September 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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    Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 150–151. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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    House Of Commons, Great Britain. Parliament (1878). Parliamentary papers. Vol. 62, Part 2.
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