John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough

For other people named John Hobhouse, see John Hobhouse (disambiguation).
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John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC (31 January 1932 – 15 March 2004) was a British judge and Law Lord.

Hobhouse was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the son of Sir John Richard Hobhouse, a shipowner. He was educated at St Andrew's, Pangbourne, and Eton. After working abroad in Australia and New Zealand on a sheep farm, Hobhouse returned to Christ Church, Oxford in 1951, where he read Jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1955, He later became a Bencher. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1973.

Hobhouse was made a High Court judge in 1982, and received the customary knighthood. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1993, when he was also made a member of the Privy Council. On 1 October 1998 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, becoming a life peer as Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, of Woodborough in the County of Wiltshire.[1]

Family

Lord Hobhouse was married to Susannah Roskill. They had two sons and one daughter.

References

  1. ↑ House of Lords (1998-10-07). "Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords". minutes of proceedings. Retrieved 2006-11-19.


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