Reginald Hobhouse

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 curate at Bridport. After this he was Rector of Riseholme, Lincolnshire. In 1844 he became the incumbent at St 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]