Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse (19 June 1807 – 31 December 1876) was a British Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician.

Hobhouse was the son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Amelia, daughter of Reverend Joshua Parry. The Whig politician and pamphleteer Lord Broughton

John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton

John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton GCB, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and memoirist.-Background and education:...

 was his half-brother. He sat as Member of Parliament

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 for Rochester

Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1837 to 1841 and for Lincoln

Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1848 to 1852.

Hobhouse died in December 1876, aged 69. He never married.

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