Charles Hobhouse

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Postmaster General
In office
11 February 1914 – 25 May 1915
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterH. H. Asquith
Preceded byHerbert Samuel
Succeeded byHerbert Samuel
Personal details
Born(1862-06-30)30 June 1862
Died26 June 1941(1941-06-26) (aged 78)
Monkton Farleigh, Wiltshire, England
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouses
Georgina Fuller
​
​
(m. 1890; died 1927)​
Aimee Brendon
​
(m. 1931)​
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse, 4th Baronet,

Liberal cabinet of H. H. Asquith
between 1911 and 1915.

Background and education

He was the third child and only son of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Edith Lucy Turton, daughter of Sir Thomas Turton, 2nd Baronet, born at Dormansland, Surrey. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1880. He then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[2][3][4]

Military career

Hobhouse was commissioned from Sandhurst as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) on 23 August 1884,[4] and served with the regiment until he resigned from the Regular Army on 7 May 1890 to enter politics.[5] However, he became a captain in the part-time 7th Battalion, KRRC, (the Royal 2nd Middlesex Militia) on 17 April 1897.[6] When a new 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in Bristol during the Second Boer War, he was commissioned as a major in the unit, succeeding to its command with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on 5 April 1903.[7] He continued in that role when the battalion became the 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in the Territorial Force in 1908.[8] Hobhouse retired from the command on 5 April 1911,[9] but on the death of the 6th Gloucesters' Honorary Colonel, Earl Roberts, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, he was appointed to succeed him on 24 December 1914.[10] Hobhouse continued to be the 6th Gloucesters' Hon Colonel for the rest of his life, the battalion being converted into 44th Royal Tank Regiment in 1938.[11]

Political career

Hobhouse's first attempt to get elected was at

Church Estates Commissioner
from 1906 to 1907.

Hobhouse was appointed to his first ministerial post in 1907 when

Privy Council.[14]

Apart from his career in national politics, Hobhouse was an

Coupon election
in 1918 he lost his seat, as did Asquith, McKenna, Runciman, Simon, Samuel and McKinnon Wood. In 1922 Hobhouse stood again in North Buckinghamshire but came third, behind both Conservative and Labour.

Hobhouse, long associated with Bristol, was appointed President of the Western Counties Liberal Federation from 1924 to 1935 and President of the National Liberal Federation from 1926 to 1930.

Personal life

Hobhouse married first in 1890 Georgina Fleetwood Fuller (Lady Nina), daughter of

George Pargiter Fuller of Neston Park; she died in 1927. He married again in 1931, to Aimee Gladys Brendon, widow of Benjamin Adams Brendon, and daughter of David Charles Ballinger Griffith. He had no children by either marriage.[2] They lived at Monkton Farleigh
until he died on 26 June 1941, aged 78.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780521530538
    – via Google Books.
  2. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37553. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
    .
  4. ^ a b London Gazette, 22 August 1884.
  5. ^ London Gazette, 1 July 1890.
  6. ^ London Gazette, 4 May 1897.
  7. ^ London Gazette, 21 April 1903.
  8. ^ London Gazette, 8 September 1908.
  9. ^ London Gazette, 4 April 1911.
  10. ^ London Gazette, 22 December 1914.
  11. ^ Monthly Army List, various dates.
  12. ^ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918
  13. ISBN 978-0-19-880786-5
    .
  14. ^ "No. 28265". The London Gazette. 29 June 1909. p. 4953.

Primary sources

  • David, Edward, ed. (1977). Inside Asquith's Cabinet: from the Diaries of Charles Hobhouse. London.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Secondary sources

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