Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse (19 June 1807 – 31 December 1876) was a British Liberal Party politician. Hobhouse was the son of

Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1757–1831) was an English politician. Life The son of John Hobhouse, a slave trader and merchant at Bristol (and nephew to Isaac Hobhouse), he received his education at Bristol grammar school and Braseno ...

, by his second wife Amelia, daughter of Reverend Joshua Parry. The Whig politician and pamphleteer Lord Broughton was his half-brother.thepeerage.com Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse
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Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

, where he matriculated in 1825 and graduated BA in 1828. He was

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for Trinity term, 1828 after which he entered the Middle Temple and became a barrister-at-law in 1833. He sat as Member of Parliament for Rochester from 1837 to 1841 and for Lincoln from 1848 to 1852. Hobhouse died in December 1876, aged 69. He never married.

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