Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Hobart | |
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| Baronet of Intwood | |
| Reign | 1625–1647 |
| Predecessor | Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet |
| Successor | Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet |
| Born | 19 April 1593 Norwich |
| Died | 20 April 1647 Norwich |
| Buried | 29 April 1647 Blickling, Norfolk |
| Noble family | Hobart |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Philippa Sidney Lady Frances Egerton |
| Issue | Philippa Phillipa |
| Father | Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet |
| Mother | Dorothy Bell |
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet (19 April 1593 – 20 April 1647)[1] was an English politician and baronet.
Background
Born in
Robert Bell.[2] Hobart was knighted at Whitehall on 10 November 1611,[3][4] and succeeded his father as baronet in 1625.[5]
Career
Hobart was
Member of Parliament for Cambridge in 1621, Lostwithiel from 1624 to 1625 and Brackley in 1626. He then returned to the Long Parliament for Norfolk in 1645, a seat he held until his death in 1647.[6]
He was
Justice of the Peace for Middlesex from 1624 to 1629 and for Norfolk from 1625 to his death, and was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk
for 1632–33.
His second wife, Frances Hobert, managed his large debts as he completed the building of Blickling Hall, a major Jacobean country house.[7]
Family
He married firstly in July 1614 Lady Philippa Sidney, a daughter of
John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgwater in February 1621, and they had by nine children but only one child, Phillipa, survived.[2] He died, aged 54, in Norwich after a long illness and was buried in Blickling in Norfolk nine days later.[11] Hobart was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew John.[9]
References
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Collins, Arthur (1812). Sir Egerton Brydges (ed.). Collins's Peerage of England. Vol. IV. London: T. Bensley. pp. 365–367.
- ^ "The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland". 1906.
- ^ "HOBART, Sir John II (1593-1647), of Blickling and Chapel Field, Norwich, Norf. | History of Parliament Online".
- ^ La Belle Assemblée or Court and Fashionable Magazine. Vol. III. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. 1826. p. 142.
- ^ "HOBART, Sir John II (1593-1647), of Blickling and Chapel Field, Norwich, Norf". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
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- ^ Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1849), p. 332.
- ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 173.
- ^ William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 421.
- ^ "ThePeerage - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Bt". Retrieved 31 December 2006.
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