John Hobart KB (1693 - 1756)

Born 11 Oct 1693 in Blickling, Norfolk, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Judith (Britiffe) Hobart — married 8 Nov 1717 in Thorpe Market, Norfolk, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Bristow) Hobart — married 10 Feb 1728 in St. Paul's Church, Covent Gardens, London, England

Descendants

Died 22 Sep 1756 at age 62 in St James's Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England

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Hobart, John, 1st earl of Buckinghamshire (1693–1756), politician and courtier, was born on 11 October 1693, the only son of Sir Henry Hobart, fourth baronet (1657/8–1698), of Blickling, Norfolk, and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1701), the daughter and coheir of Joseph Maynard of Clifton Reynes, Buckinghamshire.

On 8 November 1717, at Thorpe Market, Norfolk, he married Judith (d. 1727), the daughter of Robert Britiffe, MP for Norwich and legal adviser to Hobart's Norfolk neighbours the Townshends and the Walpoles, and his first wife, Judith Edgar. They had three sons, only one of whom, John Hobart, later second earl of Buckinghamshire, survived infancy, and five daughters, of whom again only one, Dorothy (d. 1798), who married Sir Charles Hotham-Thompson, eighth baronet, survived.

Following the death of his first wife on 7 February 1727, he had married, on 10 February 1728, at St Paul's Cathedral, London, Elizabeth (d. 1762), the daughter of Robert Bristow (d. 1706), who had been heir to estates in Virginia and Hampshire, and the sister of Robert Bristow, MP for Winchelsea and clerk of the green cloth. They had two sons, George Hobart, later third earl of Buckinghamshire (1731–1804), and Henry (1738–1799), MP for Norwich from 1786.

On 28 May 1728 he was created Baron Hobart of Blickling, and Earl of Buckinghamshire on 5 September 1746.

He died at his home in St James's Square, Westminster, on 22 September 1756, and was buried at Blickling.

Sources

• Matthew Kilburn,‘Hobart, John, first earl of Buckinghamshire (1693–1756)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
• Wikipedia entry for John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire