The Ven. Reginald Hobhouse, MA (18 March 1818 – 27 January 1895), was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1878[1]to[2] 1892.[3][4]
He was born on 18 March 1818 as the third son of Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary of state for the home department (Home Office) and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.[5]
He was ordained in 1841 and began his career as a curateatBridport. After this he was RectorofRiseholme, Lincolnshire. In 1844 he became the incumbentatSt Ive, Cornwall,[6] where he was to remain until his death on 27 January 1895.[7] Hobhouse was active in the campaign for a modern bishop of Cornwall and was the author of a pamphlet "The Cornish Bishopric" (1860) [4]
His older brother Edmund was the inaugural Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand and his younger brother Arthur was a judge. His daughter Emily was an early welfare campaigner and his son Leonard was a liberal political theorist and sociologist.[8]
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