George Hobart George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire (8 September 173114 November 1804) was a British peer, styled The Honourable George Hobart from 1733 until 1793.

Life

Hobart was the son of

John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire, (11 October 169322 September 1756) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1728, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hobart. Early life Hobart was the son of Si ...

by his second wife, Elizabeth Bristow. He was educated at

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and visited the

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Hobart represented the constituencies of St Ives and

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in the

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from 1754 to 1761 and 1761 to 1780, respectively. He was secretary to the embassy in

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in 1762, his half-brother

John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (17 August 17233 August 1793) was a British nobleman and politician. Biography The son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his first wife Judith Britiffe, he was educated at Westminster Scho ...

being then ambassador. He inherited the

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Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

from his half-brother, who had no surviving sons, in 1793. On 29 April 1797, he was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Lincolnshire Militia (South Lincolnshire Supplementary Militia), becoming a colonel in the regular army when his regiment was embodied on 12 January 1799. He died in 1804 and was succeeded by his son Robert, who had already entered the

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in 1798 by a

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as Baron Hobart.

Family

Hobart married Albinia Bertie, second daughter of Lord Vere Bertie and the heiress Ann Casey, on 16 May 1757.Matthew Kilburn, 'Hobart, George, third earl of Buckinghamshire (1731–1804)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 200
Retrieved 4 June 2017
/ref> They had eight children: *

Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, (6 May 17604 February 1816), styled Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a British Tory politician. Life Buckinghamshire was born at Hampden House, the son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire ...

(1760–1816) *Hon. George Vere Hobart (17615 December 1802), married first Jane Cataneo and had issue, married second, in April 1802, Janet Maclean and had issue *Lt. the Hon. Charles Hobart, RN (died April 1782) * Rev. the Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart (17748 May 1846), married Charlotte Selina Moore and had issue *Lady Albinia Hobart, married Richard Cumberland on 14 Jul 1784 and had issue *Lady Henrietta Anne Barbara Hobart (c. 17621828), married, in 1789, John Sullivan and had issue *Lady Maria Frances Hobart (c. 17621794), married

George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford, FRS (11 September 1757 – 20 April 1802), known as The Honourable George North until 1790 and as Lord North from 1790 to 1792, was a British politician. Early life Guilford was the eldest son of ...

and had issue *Lady Charlotte Hobart (died 1798), married Col. Edward Disbrowe (died 1818) and had issue, including

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe GCG (1790–1851) was a British politician and diplomat. Life Sir Edward Disbrowe was born at Walton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire, the son of Colonel Edward Disbrowe, and his wife Lady Charlotte Ho ...

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