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

Early 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. From his parents' marriage, he had a younger brother, Hon. Henry Hobart, who served as MP for Norwich.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.''

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, U.S.A.:

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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 577-578. His paternal grandparents were

Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet (1657 – 21 August 1698) was an English Whig (British political faction), Whig politician and baronet. He represented several seats in the House of Commons of England between 1681 and 1698, when he was killed in a ...

of Blickling and the former Elizabeth Maynard (eldest daughter of Sir

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). His maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Woolley and Robert Bristow, MP for Winchelsea.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 401-405. He was educated at

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and visited the

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Career

left, George Hobart The Loss of the Faro Bank James Gillray 1797

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 politician, courtier and diplomat. Biography The son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his first wife Judith Britiffe, he was educated at Westmin ...

being then ambassador. He inherited the

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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.

Personal life

On 16 May 1757, Hobart married Albinia Bertie, second daughter of Lord Vere Bertie and the heiress Ann Casey.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: *

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(1760–1816), who married Margaretta Bourke. After her death in 1796, he married Hon. Eleanor Eden, daughter of

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, in 1799. * Hon. George Vere Hobart (1761–1802), who married Jane

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. After her death, he married Janet Maclean in April 1802. * Hon. Charles Hobart (d. 1782), a Lt. in the

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. * Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart (1774–1846), a Reverend who married Charlotte Selina Moore. * Lady Albinia Hobart, who married Richard Cumberland in 1784. * Lady Henrietta Anne Barbara Hobart (–1828), who married John Sullivan in 1789. * Lady Maria Frances Hobart (–1794), who married

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. * Lady Charlotte Hobart (d. 1798), who married Col.

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. Lord Buckinghamshire died on 14 November 1804 and was succeeded by his son,

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, who had already entered the

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in 1798 by a

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as Baron Hobart.

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