Peregrine Hoby
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Peregrine Hoby | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Great Marlow | |
| In office 1660–1679 | |
| Preceded by | John Borlase Gabriel Hippesley |
| Succeeded by | Bulstrode Whitelocke One seat vacant |
| In office 1659–1659 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency temporarily abolished |
| Succeeded by | Bulstrode Whitelocke One seat vacant |
| In office 1640–1648 | |
| Preceded by | Bulstrode Whitelocke One seat vacant |
| Succeeded by | John Borlase Sir Humphrey Winch |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 September 1602 |
| Died | 6 May 1679 (aged 76) |
| Spouse |
Katherine Doddington
(m. 1631) |
| Children | 5, including Sir Edward, Thomas |
| Parent(s) | Sir Edward Hoby Katherine Pinckney |
| Education | Eton College |
Peregrine Hoby (1 September 1602 – 6 May 1679), was an English landowner and member of parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.
Hoby was the illegitimate son and heir of Sir Edward Hoby of Bisham Abbey in Berkshire,[1] by Katherine Pinckney, a favourite of James I.[2] His father, who was twice married (including to Margaret Carey, a daughter of Queen Elizabeth's cousin Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon) but never to his mother, had no legitimate children but Peregrine was brought up by him nevertheless and eventually made his father's heir.[3]
His father was the eldest son of the English Ambassador to France Sir Thomas Hoby and his wife Elizabeth Cooke (the third daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall, tutor to Edward VI) and his younger brother was Thomas Posthumous Hoby. After his grandfather's death in Paris while Ambassador, his grandmother remarried to John, Lord Russell, eldest surviving son and heir to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (from this marriage, he was a nephew of Anne Russell, wife of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester). His father was also the nephew of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.[3]
Hoby attended Eton College between 1612 and 1616. At his father's death in 1617, the elder Hoby committed him to the care of the Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot.
