Stephen
Henry
Hobhouse
Born in Pitcombe, Somerset, England
Ancestors 
Brother of
Rachel (Hobhouse) Clay and Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse
Husband of
Rosa (Waugh) Hobhouse
— married
Apr 1915 in Chelsea Registration District, London, England
[children unknown]
Died
at age 79
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Nov 2015
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Biography
Stephen Hobhouse is Notable.
Stephen Henry Hobhouse was a prominent English peace activist, prison reformer, and religious writer.[1]
He worked as a civil servant for seven years in the Board of Education. During the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, he resigned his post to go to Constantinople as a volunteer with a Quaker relief mission that helped refugees and saw firsthand the damage that war can do.[2]
As eldest son of a wealthy family, Stephen stood to inherit a large fortune, but, influenced by Tolstoy, he renounced his inheritance. He and his wife adopted a lifestyle of poverty, living in Hoxton, then a slum district in East London. At the same time they joined the Quaker Society of Friends and became active in Quaker service.[3]
Sources
- UK birth registration: Wincanton 5c 451, September quarter 1881
- UK marriage registration: Chelsea 1a 1199, June quarter 1915
- UK death registration: London C. 5d 108, June quarter 1961, age 79
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