1. Sir Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse, 4th Baronet, TD, PC, JP was a British Liberal politician and officer in the Territorial Force.
16 Facts About Charles Hobhouse
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Charles Hobhouse was the third child and only son of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Edith Lucy Turton, daughter of Sir Thomas Turton, 2nd Baronet, born at Dormansland, Surrey.
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Charles Hobhouse was educated at Eton College, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1880.
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Charles Hobhouse continued in that role when the battalion became the 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in the Territorial Force in 1908.
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Charles Hobhouse retired from the command on 5 April 1911, but on the death of the 6th Gloucesters' Honorary Colonel, Earl Roberts, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, he was appointed to succeed him on 24 December 1914.
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Charles Hobhouse continued to be the 6th Gloucesters' Hon Colonel for the rest of his life, the battalion being converted into 44th Royal Tank Regiment in 1938.
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Charles Hobhouse was Liberal Member of Parliament for Devizes between 1892 and 1895 and for Bristol East between 1900 and 1918.
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Charles Hobhouse was a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Colonial Office from 1892 to 1895 and a Church Estates Commissioner from 1906 to 1907.
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Charles Hobhouse was appointed to his first ministerial post in 1907 when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman made him Under-Secretary of State for India.
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Charles Hobhouse was a member of Asquith's cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1911 and 1914 and as Postmaster-General between 1914 and 1915.
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Apart from his career in national politics, Charles Hobhouse was an Alderman on Wiltshire County Council from 1893 to 1924.
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Charles Hobhouse succeeded his father as fourth Baronet in 1916.
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In 1922 Charles Hobhouse stood again in North Buckinghamshire but came third, behind both Conservative and Labour.
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Charles Hobhouse, long associated with Bristol, was appointed President of the Western Counties Liberal Federation from 1924 to 1935 and President of the National Liberal Federation from 1926 to 1930.
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Charles Hobhouse married first in 1890 Georgina Fleetwood Fuller, daughter of George Pargiter Fuller of Neston Park; she died in 1927.
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Charles Hobhouse married again in 1931, to Aimee Gladys Brendon, widow of Benjamin Adams Brendon, and daughter of David Charles Ballinger Griffith.