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.
HOBHOUSE, Thomas Benjamin (5 son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, bart. 1757–1831). b. 19 June 1807; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828; contested Aylesbury 1835; M.P. Rochester 1837–41; contested Newark 1841; M.P. Lincoln 1848–52; contested Ipswich 1852. d. 31 Dec. 1876.
HOBLER, Francis (son of Francis Hobler, clerk to the lord mayor 1803–43 who d. 21 Jany. 1844 aged 78). Solicitor in City of London 1817–60; solicitor to Licensed Victuallers Soc. 1837–60; solicitor for the Crown in trial of F. B. Courvoisier 18–20 June 1840; sec. of Numismatic Soc. of London; author of Familiar exercises between an attorney and his articled clerk on the principles of the laws of real property 1831, 2 ed. 1838; Liber mercatoris or the merchant’s manual, being a concise treatise on bills of exchange 1838; Records of Roman history as exhibited on the Roman coins 2 vols. 1860.
HOBLYN, Richard Dennis (1 son of Rev. Richard Hoblyn 1771–1827, R. of All Saints, Colchester). b. Colchester 9 April 1803; ed. at Tiverton gram. sch. and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; ordained 1832, resigned clerical life; devoted himself to teaching and writing on education; author of A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences 1835, 11 ed. 1887; A manual of the steam engine 1842; A dictionary of scientific terms 1849. d. 22 Aug. 1886.
HOBLYN, Thomas (eld. son of Edward Hoblyn). b. Liskeard 1778; chief clerk in H.M. treasury 1820–34; F.R.S. 27 June 1811; F.L.S. 4 March 1823; author of Precepts for the use of Hoblyn’s equalizer, the value in imperial measure equivalent to any value in wine measure 1826; Description of a method of founding a lighthouse on the Goodwin sands 1851. d. White Barns, Herts. 6 Aug. 1860. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 246, iii, 1232; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. 370.
HOBSON, Frederick. b. 1800; proprietor of The Leeds Times 1833 to death, and manager of the commercial department; joined by his son William Hobson. d. Woodhouse, Leeds 18 Feb. 1863. Leeds Times 21 Feb. 1863 p. 4.
HOBSON, John. b. Leeds; musical director of the Christy (afterwards the Moore and Burgess) minstrels London for 12 years before his death; composer of The flight of the birds 1870; The man with the appetite 1880. d. 8 Appach road, Brixton 31 Jany. 1887.
HOBSON, Martin. b. 1833; chorus master at Alhambra palace, London; musical conductor to Bernard’s opera company; composed many popular songs, among others The boys of merry England 1865; A norrible tale of the suicidal family 1865; Give me the man of honest heart 1867; O sing the song you used to sing 1872; I likes a drop of good beer 1875; Popular hymns, carols and sacred songs, arranged for pianoforte, 40 numbers 1875; Popular favourites arranged for the pianoforte, 153 numbers 1876–9, and 30 other pieces besides arranging many songs, etc. d. 3 Dec. 1880.
HOBSON, Richard. b. Whitehaven, Cumberland 1795; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.D. 1830; settled in Leeds 1831; physician Leeds infirmary 1833–43; kept a pack of harriers; was intimate with C. Waterton from 1836; published Charles Waterton, his home, habits and handiwork 1866. d. 10 Park place, Leeds 29 Nov. 1868.