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HOBHOUSE, ARTHUR HOEHOUSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOBHOUSE, See also:ARTHUR HOEHOUSE , 1ST' See also:BARON (1819-1904), See also:English See also:judge, See also:fourth son of See also:Henry Hobhouse, permanent under-secretary of See also:state in the See also:Home See also:Office,was See also:born at Hadspen, See also:Somerset, on the loth of See also:November 1819. Educated at See also:Eton and Balliol, he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1845, and rapidly acquired a large practice as a conveyancer and See also:equity draftsman; he became Q.C. in 1862, and practised in the Rolls See also:Court, retiring in 1866. He was an active member of the charity See also:commission and urged the See also:appropriation of pious bequests to educational and other purposes. In 1872 he began a five years' See also:term of service as legal member of the See also:council of the { See also:governor-See also:general of See also:India, his services being acknowledged by, a K.C.S.I.; and in 1881 he was appointed a member of the judicial See also: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 See also:House of Lords. He died on the 6th of See also:December 1904, leaving no See also:heir to the See also:barony. His papers read before the Social See also:Science Association on the subject of See also:property were collected in 188o under the See also:title of The Dead See also:Hand.

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