[2] Hobart was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for St Ives at the 1715 general election.

At the 1727 general election he was returned as MP for Bere Alston and for Norfolk.

He chose to sit for Norfolk but vacated his seat in 1728 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hobart of Blickling[3] at the coronation of King George II.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1739, captain of the Gentleman Pensioners in 1744 and Privy Councillor in 1745.

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