Hoblyn Family
Hoblyn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Hoblyn ( 1660–1706), English lawyer * John Paget Figg-Hoblyn (1926–2011), professor and taxonomist * Robert Hoblyn Robert Hoblyn MP FRS (1710–1756) was an English politician and book collector. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1745. He was a Member of Parliament representing the city of Bristol (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol in 1741 ...

John Hoblyn
John Hoblyn (ca. 1660 – June 1706) was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Edward Hoblyn and Bridget Carew. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1682, and was Town Clerk of Bodmin from 1692. In 1695 he was elected to Parliament as Member for Bodmin, and retained the seat unopposed until his death. In the House of Commons he generally voted with the Tories. Some sources erroneously state that the banker Sir John Houblon was elected three times as MP for Bodmin, apparently confusing him with Hoblyn. Marriage He was married to Jane Symons in 1682 at Christ Church Greyfriars Newgate, London. They didn't have any children. In his will dated 1705, he left his property to his wife and to his brother Thomas. He also left property to his nephew Edward, which included The Barton of Colquite, the manor of Colquite and its mills and lands in St Mabyn, Egloshayle and Bodmin (except Pitt in St Mabyn). References * * David W Hayton, Stuart Hand ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

John Paget Figg-Hoblyn
John Paget Figg-Hoblyn Ph.D ( Biological science) (January 25, 1926 – June 12, 2011) was a university professor, and taxonomist. He came to public attention when a BBC documentary was broadcast about the search for him in 1994, after he had failed to claim an inheritance which included Fir Hill Manor. Inheritance dispute Figg-Hoblyn came to public attention in 1994, when the BBC broadcast a documentary about him. In 1965 his father had bequeathed him a 1000-acre estate and the ruins of a manor house, Fir Hill Manor, in Cornwall, England. According to the Official Solicitor, he failed to take up the inheritance. The Official Solicitor was appointed in 1972 to manage the estate for John Figg-Hoblyn in the 1970s when they lost contact with him. The BBC documentary discovered Figg-Hoblyn was living in a caravan park in California, United States, where he and his sister, Peggy, were following a low-key lifestyle trading in organic produce. The BBC subsequently lost contact with ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]