See also:BARON See also:JOHN See also:CAM See also:HOBHOUSE See also:BROUGHTON (1786-1869)
, See also:English writer and politician, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Benjamin See also:Hobhouse, See also:Bart., by his wife See also:Charlotte, daughter of See also:Samuel See also:Cam of See also:Chantry See also:House, See also:Bradford, See also:Wiltshire
.
See also:Born at See also:Bristol on the 27th of See also:June 1786, he was educated at See also:Westminster school and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1808
.
He took the Hulsean See also:prize in 18o8 for his See also:Essay on the Origin and Intention of Sacrifices
.
At Cambridge he founded the " Whig See also:Club," and the " Amicable Society," and became very intimate with See also:Byron, who accompanied him on a tour in See also:Spain, See also:Greece and See also:Turkey in 1809
.
Hobhouse was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Dresden in See also:August 1813, and, following the allied See also:army into See also:France, saw See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII. enter See also:Paris in May 1814
.
He was again in Paris after the return of See also:Napoleon from See also:Elba, and showed his dislike of the Bourbons and his sympathy with
See also:Bonaparte by See also:writing in 1816 a pamphlet entitled The substance of some See also:letter s written by an Englishman See also:resident in Paris during the last reign of the See also:emperor Napoleon
.
This caused some offence in See also:England and more' in France, and the See also:French See also:translation was seized by the See also:government and both translator and printer were imprisoned
.
A further See also:period of travel with Byron followed, and at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Hobhouse wrote some notes to the See also:fourth See also:canto of Childe Harold
.
This canto was afterwards dedicated to him, and a revised edition of a See also:part of his notes entitled See also:Historical illustrations of the fourth canto of " Childe Harold "containing See also:dissertations on the ruins of See also:Rome and an essay on See also:Italian literature, was published in 1818
.
In See also:February 1819 Hobhouse was the See also:Radical See also:candidate at a by-See also:election for the See also:representation of the See also:city of Westminster, but he failed to secure election
.
He had already gained some popularity by writing in favour of reform, and in 1819 he issued A See also:defence of the See also:People in reply to See also:Lord See also:Erskine's " Two Defences of the Whigs," followed by A trifling See also:mistake in See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, Lord Erskine's See also:recent See also:preface
.
The House of See also:Commons declared this latter pamphlet a See also:breach of See also:privilege; its author was arrested on the 14th of See also:December 1819, and in spite of an See also:appeal to the See also:court of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:bench he remained in custody until the end of the following February
.
But this proceeding only increased his' popularity, and at the See also:general election of 182o he was returned for Westminster
.
Hobhouse shared Byron's See also:enthusiasm for the liberation of Greece; after the poet's See also:death in 1824 he proved his will, and superintended the arrangements for his funeral
.
In See also:parliament he proved a valuable recruit to the party of reform; and having succeeded his See also:father as 2nd See also:baronet in 1831, was appointed secretary at See also:war in the See also:ministry of See also:Earl See also:Grey in February 1832, and was made a privy councillor
.
He effected some reforms and economies during his See also:tenure of this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but, unable to carry out all his wishes, became See also:chief secretary for See also:Ireland in See also:March 1833
.
He had only held this See also:post for a few See also:weeks when, in consequence of his refusal to See also:vote with the government against the abolition of the house and window tax, he resigned both his office and his seat in parliament
.
At the subsequent election he was defeated, but joined the See also:cabinet as first See also:commissioner of See also:woods and forests when Lord See also:Melbourne took office in See also:July 1834, and about the same time was returned at a by-election as one of the members for See also:Nottingham
.
In Melbourne's government of 1835 he was See also:president of the See also:board of See also:control, in which position he strongly supported the See also:Indian policy of Lord See also:Auckland; he returned to the same office in July 1846 as a member of Lord See also:John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell's cabinet; and in February 1851 he went to the House of Lords as See also:Baron See also:Broughton of Broughton Gyfford
.
He See also:left office when Russell resigned in February 1852, and took little part in See also:political See also:life, being mainly occupied in See also:literary pursuits and in See also:correspondence
.
He died in See also:London on the 3rd of June 1869
.
He had married in July 1828 See also:Lady Julia Tomlinson See also:Hay, daughter of See also:George, 7th See also:marquess of See also:Tweeddale, by whom he had three daughters, but being without See also:heir male the See also:barony lapsed on his death, the baronetcy passing to his See also:nephew, See also:Charles See also:Parry Hobhouse
.
Lord Broughton was a partner in See also:Whitbread's brewery, a See also:fellow of the Royal Society, and one of the founders of the Royal See also:Geographical Society
.
He was responsible for the passing of the See also:Vestry See also:Act of 1831, and is said to have first used the phrase " his See also:majesty's opposition." He was a See also:good classical See also:scholar, and although not eloquent, an able debater
.
In addition to the See also:works already enumerated he wrote A, See also:journey through See also:Albania and other provinces of Turkey in See also:Europe and See also:Asia to See also:Constantinople during the years 'Sop and r8ro (London, 1813), revised edition (London, 1855); and See also:Italy: Remarks made in Several Visits from the See also:Year 181-6 to 1854 (London, 1859)
.
A collection of his diaries, correspondence and memoranda is in the See also:British Museum
.
See T
.
See also:Moore, Life of Lord Byron (London, 1837-1840) ; Greville See also:Memoirs (London, 1896) ; See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, vol. tkvii
.
(London, 1891); The Times, June 4, 1869; See also:Spencer See also:Walpole, See also:History of England (London, 1890)
.
Broughton also wrote Recollec-Rions of a See also:Long Life, printed privately in 1865, and in 1909 published with additions in 2 vols. edited by his daughter, Lady See also:Dorchester, with a preface by the earl of See also:Rosebery
.
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