[2] Hobart was knighted at Whitehall on 10 November 1611,[3][4] and succeeded his father as baronet in 1625.
He then returned to the Long Parliament for Norfolk in 1645, a seat he held until his death in 1647.
His second wife, Frances Hobert, managed his large debts as he completed the building of Blickling Hall, a major Jacobean country house.
[10] and Hobart married secondly Lady Frances Egerton, eldest daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgwater in February 1621, and they had by nine children but only one child, Phillipa, survived.
[2] He died, aged 54, in Norwich after a long illness and was buried in Blickling in Norfolk nine days later.