Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet

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Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet (1657–1698) was an English Whig politician and baronet.

Family[]

Henry Hobart was the eldest son to Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet and his first wife Mary Hampden, daughter to John Hampden.[1] He was knighted at Blickling by King Charles II of England in 1671 and succeeded his father as baronet in 1683.[2]

Hobart was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[3]

On 9 July 1684, he married Elizabeth Maynard, eldest daughter to Sir Joseph Maynard, and had by her a son and three daughters.[1] His eldest daughter Henrietta was a mistress of King George II of Great Britain.[4] The second daughter Catherine married Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill.[5] Lady Hobart died in 1701.[2]

Hobart was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son John, later raised to the peerage as Earl of Buckinghamshire.[6]

Career[]

Henry Hobart was Gentleman of the Horse to King William III of England and fought under him in the Battle of the Boyne,[7] and a year later was appointed Vice-Admiral of Norfolk.[8]

Hobart was a Member of parliament for King's Lynn in the English House of Commons between 1681 and 1685. He represented Thetford from January to February 1689 and subsequently Norfolk until 1690. In 1694, he was elected for Bere Alston, a seat he held until the following year, when he was returned again for Norfolk until the July–August 1698 election, which he fought and lost.

Death[]

The Duel Stone

On 20 August, after the 1698 election, Hobart fought a duel with Oliver Le Neve on Cawston Heath, and was mortally wounded. Le Neve of Witchingham Hall, Great Witchingham, fought left-handed and was wounded in the arm by Hobart who had a reputation as a good swordsman. However, Le Neve struck back and injured his opponent so badly that he died next day at Blickling. As there were no seconds or witnesses, the duel was illegal. Le Neve fled to Holland but returned to England two years later, when he was tried and acquitted.[9][10] Hobart was buried in the Blickling family vault.

A plinth with urn, called the Duel Stone, which commemorates the duel, stands in a National Trust plot on Norwich Road in Cawston.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 173–174. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ a b "ThePeerage – Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Bt". Retrieved 31 December 2006.
  3. ^ "Hobart, Henry, Sir, Knt (HBRT674H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howard, Henrietta" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 22.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage 1949, p. 291.
  6. ^ Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 166. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  7. ^ Collins, Arthur (1812). Sir Egerton Brydges (ed.). Collin's Peerage of England. Vol. vol. IV. London: T. Bensley. pp. 367–369. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  8. ^ Marsden, R. G. (1908). The English Historical Review. Vol. vol. XXIII. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 743. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  9. ^ Nicolson, Adam (2012); Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class, Part III: The Great Century 1610–1710, "Honour: The le Neves, Great Witchingham, Norfolk", HarperCollins. ISBN 0007335504
  10. ^ Rye, Francis, Rye, Amy; Calendar of Correspondence and Documents Relating to the Family of Oliver Le Neve, of Witchingham, Norfolk, 1675-1743, Norwich, A. H. Goose, (1895). Reprint Rarebooksclub.com (2012). ISBN 1130313972
Parliament of England
Preceded by

 Member of Parliament for King's Lynn
1681–1685
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Thetford
Jan–Feb 1689
With: William Harbord 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Norfolk
1689–1690
With: Sir William Cook 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bere Alston
1694–1695
With: 1694–1695
John Elwill 1695 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Norfolk
1695–1698
With: Sir Jacob Astley 		Succeeded by
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The Earl of Yarmouth 		Vice-Admiral of Norfolk
1691–1698 		Succeeded by
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1683–1698 		Succeeded by
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