Sidney Carr Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire (14 March 1860 – 15 January 1930), styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885, was a British

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politician.

Life

Buckinghamshire was the second but only surviving son of Frederick John Hobart-Hampden, Lord Hobart, second son of Reverend Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire. His mother was Catherine, daughter of the Right Reverend Thomas Carr, Bishop of Bombay. His father died in 1875 and in 1885 he succeeded his grandfather in the earldom. He sat on the Liberal benches in the

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and served briefly as a

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(government whip in the House of Lords) from January to June 1895 in the Liberal administration of

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. He was also an Honorary

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of the 4th Battalion of the

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and served as a Deputy Lieutenant of

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. In 1919 he was appointed an

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Family

Lord Buckinghamshire married Georgiana Wilhelmina, daughter of the Hon. Hew Adam Dalrymple Hamilton Haldane-Duncan-Mercer-Henderson (son of the 1st Earl of Camperdown) and Edith Isabella Mercer-Henderson, in 1888. They had one son and two daughters; daughter

Sidney Farrar Sidney Mary Catherine Anne Farrar (17 April 1900 - 1987) was a British settler in Kenya and the first woman elected to the Legislative Council of Kenya. Early life Farrar was born in London, to Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of ...

emigrated to Kenya and became the first woman elected to the

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.Elizabeth Watkins, Olga in Kenya: Repressing the Irrepressible, Britwell Books, 2005, , 9781905203741, p. 215 In 1903 Hobart assumed by Royal Licence the additional surnames of Mercer-Henderson for himself and his issue. Buckinghamshire died in January 1930, aged 69, and was succeeded in the earldom by his only son,

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. Lady Buckinghamshire died in March 1937, aged 69.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * *

External links

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