Henry Hobhouse (East Somerset MP)

[1] He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn.

He worked hard on behalf of the university and left a collection of books to the library.

Their children included: Stephen Henry Hobhouse, an important British peace activist and prison reformer; Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse built the system of National parks in England and Wales, and John Richard, a ship owner who was the father of the law lord John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough;[8] and Rachel (1883–1981) married Sir George Felix Neville Clay, 5th Baronet, and had a son Sir Henry Felix Clay, 6th Baronet.

Their youngest son (Paul Edward Hobhouse) died on 21 March 1918 in the First World War (he is commemorated on the Pozières Memorial); another daughter died in infancy.

[1] Hobhouse lived at Hadspen House, Castle Cary, Somerset, and died at the age of 83.