The Ven. Reginald Hobhouse, MA (18 March 1818 – 27 January 1895), was an Anglican

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: the

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from 1878 to 1892.

Early life

He was born on 18 March 1818 as the third son of

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, under-secretary of state for the home department ( Home Office) and educated at

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and Balliol College, Oxford. He was

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in 1841 and began his career as a curate at

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. After this he was

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of Riseholme, Lincolnshire. In 1844 he became the

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, Cornwall, where he was to remain until his death on 27 January 1895. Hobhouse was active in the campaign for a modern bishop of Cornwall and was the author of a pamphlet "The Cornish Bishopric" (1860) Brown, H. Miles (1976)'' A Century for Cornwall''. Truro: Blackford; pp. 18 & 26

Family

His older brother Edmund was the inaugural Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand and his younger brother Arthur was a judge. His daughter Emily was an early welfare campaigner and his son Leonard was a liberal political theorist and sociologist.Visitor UK
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1818 births 1895 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Archdeacons of Bodmin

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