George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire

George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire (8 September 1731 – 14 November 1804) was a British peer, styled The Honourable George Hobart from 1733 until 1793.^[1]

The Loss of the Faro Bank (1797), by James Gillray. Lord Buckinghamshire brings the news that the Faro bank has been stolen, to gamblers including his wife, popularly thought to exploit the gullible.^[2]

Life

Hobart was the son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his second wife, Elizabeth Bristow. He was educated at Westminster School.

Hobart represented the constituencies of St Ives and Bere Alston in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1761 and 1761 to 1780, respectively. He was secretary to the embassy in St Petersburg in 1762, his half-brother John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire being then ambassador.^[1]

He inherited the earldom of Buckinghamshire from his half-brother in 1793. On 29 April 1797, he was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Lincolnshire Militia (South Lincolnshire Supplementary Militia), becoming a colonel in the regular army when his regiment was embodied on 12 January 1799.^[1] He died in 1804 and was succeeded by his son Robert, who had already entered the House of Lords in 1798 by a writ of acceleration as Baron Hobart.

Family

Hobart married Albinia Bertie, illegitimate daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, in May 1757. They had eight children:

Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816)
Hon. George Vere Hobart (1761 – 5 December 1802), married first Jane Cataneo and had issue, married second, in April 1802, Janet Maclean and had issue
Lt. Charles Hobart, RN (d. April 1782)
Rev. Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart (1774 – 8 May 1846), married Charlotte Selina Moore and had issue
Lady Albinia Hobart, married Richard Cumberland on the 14th Jul 1784 and had issue
Lady Henrietta Anne Barbara Hobart (c.1762 - 1828), married, in 1789, John Sullivan and had issue
Lady Maria Frances Hobart (c. 1762 - 1794), married George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford and had issue
Lady Charlotte Hobart (d. 1798), married Col. Edward Disbrowe (d. 1818) and had issue, including Edward Cromwell Disbrowe.

References

1 2 3 Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 1. London: Longmans, Green. p. 273.
↑ Thomas Wright; Robert Harding Evans (1851). Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray: Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third. Bohn. pp. 426–7. Retrieved 30 March 2013.

Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hobart, George". Dictionary of National Biography. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Buckinghamshire

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Bristow Samuel Stephens	Member of Parliament for St Ives 1754–1761 With: James Whitshed	Succeeded by Humphrey Mackworth Praed Charles Hotham
Preceded by Sir Francis Drake John Bristow	Member of Parliament for Bere Alston 1761–1780 With: Sir Francis Drake 1761–1771 Francis William Drake 1771–1774 Sir Francis Drake 1774–1780	Succeeded by The Lord Macartney Lord Algernon Percy
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by John Hobart	Earl of Buckinghamshire 1793–1804	Succeeded by Robert Hobart
Preceded by John Hobart	Baron Hobart (descended by acceleration) 1793–1798	Succeeded by Robert Hobart

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