Benjamin Hobhouse

Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1757–1831) was an English politician.

The son of John Hobhouse, a slave trader and merchant at Bristol (and nephew to Isaac Hobhouse),[1] he received his education at Bristol grammar school and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A.

for Bletchingley in Surrey, in 1802 for Grampound in Cornwall, and in 1806 for Hindon in Wiltshire.

In 1803 he took office under Henry Addington as secretary to the board of control.

He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1818.