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 was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1825 and graduated BA in 1828. He was President of the Oxford Union for Trinity term, 1828 after which he entered the Middle Temple and became a barrister-at-law in 1833.[2]

He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1837 to 1841[3] and for Lincoln from 1848 to 1852.[4]

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

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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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