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See also:BROUGHTON, See also:JOHN See also:CAM See also:HOBHOUSE, See also:BARON (1786-1869) , See also:English writer and politician, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Benjamin Hobhouse, See also:Bart., by his wife See also:Charlotte, daughter of See also:Samuel 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 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 Baron 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.
End of Article: BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, BARON (1786-1869)
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