Peregrine Hoby (1 September 1602 – 6 May 1679), was an English landowner and member of parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.
[2] His father, who was twice married (including to Margaret Carey, a daughter of Queen Elizabeth's cousin Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon) but never to his mother, had no legitimate children but Peregrine was brought up by him nevertheless and eventually made his father's heir.
[3] His father was the eldest son of the English Ambassador to France Sir Thomas Hoby and his wife Elizabeth Cooke (the third daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall, tutor to Edward VI) and his younger brother was Thomas Posthumous Hoby.
At his father's death in 1617, the elder Hoby committed him to the care of the Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot.
Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet (c. 1716–1766),[11] who both died unmarried at which time the baronetcy became extinct.