John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), created in 1851 Baron Broughton de Gyfford, was the eldest son of Mr. Benjamin Hobhouse, created a baronet in 1812, and M.P. (from 1797 to 1818) successively for Bletchingley, Grampound, and Hindon. From a school at Bristol, John Cam Hobhouse was sent to Westminster, and thence to Trinity, Cambridge, where he won (1808) the Hulsean Prize for an essay on "Sacrifices," and made acquaintance with Byron, as related in
. In 1809 he published a poetical miscellany, consisting of sixty-five pieces, under the title of
Imitations and Translations from the Ancient and Modern Classics, together with original Poems never before published
(London, 1809, 8vo). (For Byron's nine contributions, see
Poems
, vol. i., Bibliographical Note.) In 1809-10 he was Byron's travelling companion abroad (see
A Journey through Albania, etc.
London, 1813, 4to).
In 1813 he travelled with Douglas Kinnaird in Sweden, Germany, Austria, and Italy; in 1814 he was at Paris with the allied armies; and in April, 1815, was there again till the second Napoleonic war broke out, returning to witness the second restoration of the Bourbons (see his