Henry William Hobart (11 April 1856 – 18 September 1941) was a British socialist activist and trade unionist.
He was an active supporter of the new unionism movement, for example, assisting Ben Tillett in the early history of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union, and was an organiser of the London matchgirls strike of 1888.
[1] In 1886, Hobart joined the Social Democratic Federation, and represented it at the International Workers Congresses of Paris, 1889.
[2] In 1911, he was part of a committee which relaunched the Daily Herald, and he then became a frequent contributor to the paper.
[3] Hobart was an accomplished orator, holding audiences spellbound with stories and SDF polemic.