Hobhouse, JOHN CAM

Hobhouse, JOHN CAM, the friend of Byron, was born in 1786, and was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. His Journey through Albania with Lord Byron he published in 1813. An advanced Liberal in politics, he stood for Westminster in 1818 without success, but was returned by a large majority in 1820, and sat later for both Nottingham and Harwich. Successively Irish Secretary, First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and President of the Board of Control, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1831, was created Baron Broughton in 1851, and died without male heirs, 3d June 1869, when the peerage became extinct, while the baronetcy passed to his nephew.