'Hobhouse1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Hobhouse of Hadspen House, Hobhouse Baronets

                               
Commoners reports that "The family of Hobhouse, originally of German extraction, first settled at Minehead, in Somersetshire, and thence removed towards the close of the 17th century to Bristol".
John Hobhouse (bur 11.07.1711)
m. Ann Madox of Norton (bur 08.02.1722)
1. Benjamin Hobhouse of Minehead (bpt 14.12.1682, bur 04.02.1748-9, 3rd son)
  m. Mary Spragge (bur 10.10.1745, heir)
  A. John Hobhouse of Wesbury College, Gloucestershire (b 1712, d 21.05.1787)
  m1. Mary Medley of Hereford (widow of _ Smith)
i. Isaac Hobhouse (d 29.09.1810)
  m1. (10.11.1791) Mary Hardwick (d 1803, dau of George Hardwick)
  m2. (05.04.1807) Mary Royston (dau of William Royston)
  ii. Sir Benjamin Hobhouse of Chantry House (Wiltshire), 1st Bart (b 29.03.1757, d 15.08.1831)
  m1. (12.09.1785) Charlotte Cam (d 25.11.1791, dau/heir of Samuel Cam of Chantry House)
  a. Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 2nd Bart, Baron Broughton of Broughton Gyfford (d 03.06.1869) had issue (3 daughters)
  m. (28.07.1828) Julia Hay (d 03.04.1835, dau of George, 7th Marquess of Tweedale)
  b. Henry William Hobhouse (b 08.08.1791, d 22.05.1868, 3rd son) had issue
m. (1814) Mary Anne Palmer (d 14.12.1879, dau of John Palmer of Calcutta)
  c.+ other issue - Benjamin (d Waterloo 18.06.1815, Captain), Charlotte (d unm 11.07.1877)
  m2. (18.04.1793) Amelia Parry (d 01.1880, dau of Rev. Joshua Parry, aunt of Sir Edward Parry)
  e. Edward Isaac Hobhouse (b 12.04.1804, d 16.05.1854) had issue
  m. (04.01.1832) Hester Charlotte Graves (d 30.01.1880, dau of Thomas Graves, 2nd Lord)
  f. Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse (b 19.06.1807, d unm 31.12.1876)
  g. Amelia Hobhouse (d 18.01.1860)
  m. (11.1841) Thomas Daly (son of Dominick of Galway)
  h. Sophia Elizabeth Hobhouse (d 19.10.1859)
  m. (17.01.1828) Boyd Alexander of Ballochmyle
  i. Harriet Theodora Hobhouse (d 24.10.1885)
  m. (27.05.1823) George Trevor Spencer, Bishop of Madras (d 16.07.1866, Chancellor of St. Paul's)
  j. Julia Hobhouse
  m. (21.07.1830) Rev. C.F. Moore
  k. Sarah Matilda Hobhouse
  m. (05.1827) Marchese Ranghiaschi Brancaleone
  l. Catherine Hobhouse (d 06.11.1828)
  m. (30.11.1826) John William Fane of Wormsley (d 19.11.1875)
  m. Joanna Hobhouse (d 08.04.1878)
  m. (10.06.1834) Rev. F.A.S. Fane (d 05.10.1894)
  m2. (30.10.1761) Susannah Gwatkin (dsp 29.06.1789)
  B. Henry Hobhouse of Clifton (b 1714, d 1773)
  m1. (1738) Jane Banister (d 1756, dau of James Banister)
  i. Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen House, Somerset (b 1742, d 02.04.1792
  m. (1775) Sarah Jenkins (d 07.1777, dau of Rev. Richard Jenkins, Canon of Wells)
  a. Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen House (b 12.04.1776, d 13.04.1854) had issue
  m. (07.04.1806) Harriet Turton (d 07.05.1858, dau of John Turton of Sugnall Hall)
  b. Sarah Hobhouse (b 1777, d unm 1810)
  ii. Jane Hobhouse
  m. (1774) John Freeman of Letton, Herefordshire
  a. Jane Freeman
  m. Rev. John Lilly of Stoke Lacy
  b. Elizabeth Freeman
  m. Joseph Blisset of Letton
  c. Abigail Freeman
  m. William Domville (rector of Winforton)
  m2. (1761) Mary White (d 1810, dau of Michael White)
  iii. Thomas Hobhouse (d unm 1820)
  C. Betty Hobhouse
  m. John Maidman

Main source(s): BP1934 (Hobhouse), Commoners (vol 4, Hobhouse of Hadspen House), BLG1952 (Hobhouse of Hadspen House)
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