Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson, OBE, TD, PC, QC (18 April 1912 – 4 December 1967) was a British Conservative Party politician.
[1] He was first elected to the House of Commons at a 1957 by-election in the Warwick and Leamington constituency, caused by the resignation due to ill-health of the Conservative MP and former Prime Minister, Anthony Eden.
In 1959 Hobson represented suspected serial-killer Dr John Bodkin Adams in his failed attempt to be reinstated as a doctor.
[citation needed] He approved the "sordid deal" whereby Anthony Blunt was given immunity from prosecution [3] He died in London on 4 December 1967,[4] from a previously undiagnosed brain tumour.
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