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Author: Hobhouse, Thomas

Biography:

HOBHOUSE, Thomas (1762-1820: findmypast.com)

Author of an Elegy to the Memory of Doctor Samuel Johnson (too short for this bibliography) in 1785, Thomas Hobhouse identified himself on the title-page simply as “Esq.” The second edition of his second work, Kingsweston Hill (1785), however, adds “A.M.,” a degree that had been granted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland, which he attended 1779-80. He was probably the son of Henry and Mary (White) Hobhouse, who had married at St. Stephen, Bristol, Gloucestershire, on 31 Mar. 1761. He was baptised in the same church on 28 Apr. 1762. (Kingsweston Hill, the subject of his second poem, is a Bristol landmark.) There were no further literary works and no reliable information has been found about his later career but he was living in Bideford, Devon, at the time of his death. He was buried at Ashford on 25 Mar. 1820. (findmypast.com 13 Sept. 2022; ancestry.com 13 Sept. 2022; Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews, 1747-1897 [1905], 28)

 

 

Books written (2):

London: Stockdale, 1785