[1] He was educated at Westminster School in London from 1803 to 1807,[1] Christ Church, Oxford in 1809, and at Lincoln's Inn in 1810.
[2] Lord Buckinghamshire sat briefly as Member of Parliament for Mitchell (also known as the St Michaels constituency) from 1812 to 1813.
[2] In 1816 he succeeded his uncle in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.
[2] On 3 May 1819, Lord Buckinghamshire married Anne Glover Pigot, an illegitimate daughter of Sir Arthur Piggott, at St Giles in the Fields Church in London.
[1] He died in February 1849, aged 59, and was succeeded by his younger brother, the Reverend Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden.