Reginald Hobhouse, MA (18 March 1818 – 27 January 1895) was an

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priest who was the

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from 1878 to 1892.

Early life

He was born on 18 March 1818 as the third son of Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary of state for the home department (

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) and educated at

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and

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. He was

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in 1841 and began his career as a

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. After this he was Rector of

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. In 1844 he became the

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, Cornwall, where he was to remain until his death on 27 January 1895. Hobhouse was active in the campaign for a modern bishop of Cornwall and was the author of a pamphlet "The Cornish Bishopric" (1860) Brown, H. Miles (1976)'' A Century for Cornwall''. Truro: Blackford; pp. 18 & 26

Family

His older brother

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was the inaugural Bishop of

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and his younger brother

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was a judge. His daughter

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was an early welfare campaigner and his son

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was a liberal political theorist and sociologist.Visitor UK
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Notes

1818 births 1895 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Archdeacons of Bodmin

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