ARTHUR HOEHOUSE

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• ARTHUR HOEHOUSE HOBHOUSE

HOBHOUSE  , 1ST' BARON (1819-1904), English judge, fourth son of Henry Hobhouse, permanent under-secretary of state in the Home Office,was born at Hadspen, Somerset, on the loth of November 1819 . Educated at Eton and Balliol, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1845, and rapidly acquired a large practice as a conveyancer and equity draftsman; he became Q.C. in 1862, and practised in the Rolls Court, retiring in 1866 . He was an active member of the charity commission and urged the appropriation of pious bequests to educational and other purposes . In 1872 he began a five years' term of service as legal member of the council of the { governor-general of India, his services being acknowledged by, a K.C.S.I.; and in 1881 he was appointed a member of the judicial committee of the privy council, on which he served for twenty years . He was made a peer in 1885, and consistently supported the Liberal party in the House of Lords . He died on the 6th of December 1904, leaving no heir to the barony . His papers read before the Social Science Association on the subject of property were collected in 188o under the title of The Dead Hand .