Henry Hobhouse

(1776-1854)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hobhouse, Henry, 1776-1854 NRA: Hobhouse Henry (1776-1854) Civil Servant and Archivist DNB: Hobhouse, Henry (1776-1854), archivist LBT ID: HeHobho1854	B/BAP: 1776-04-12 DIED: 1854-04-13
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The son of Henry Hobhouse (1742-1792), he was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, and after working as a solicitor in Customs was permanent under-secretary of state for the Home department (1817-27).
REFERENCES TO Henry Hobhouse: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, March 1818 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 1 George Canning to William Jerdan, [1820 c.?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1821 Found 1: ¶ 9 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Canning Anecdote Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 23 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VI: 1818