The Honourable George Vere Hobart (1761 – 5 November 1802)[1] was a British politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Grenada, West Indies.
Hobart was a younger son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire and his wife Albinia Bertie, the daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, who was, in turn, a son of the 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
[2] His elder brother was the Tory politician Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire.
His term as the first Lieutenant Governor of Grenada was to be less than a year as he died on 5 November 1802, aged 41, after contracting yellow fever.
[1] Coun Douly Rankin was responsible for escorting back his widow Janet and daughter Vere, the latter being posthumously-born on the return voyage.