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 time as commissary to the Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, was diocesan inspector of the diocese of Chichester, and the founder and secretary of the Worth Clerical Association. He died on 22 Feb. 1888 at Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex, which he had purchased, and where he lived after 1848, and was buried on the 29th in Worth churchyard (Guardian, 7 March 1888, p. 336). By his marriage on 17 July 1834 to Araminta Anne, third daughter of Lieutenant-general Sir John Hamilton, bart., K.T.S. [q. v.], he had three sons and one daughter.

Hoare was author of: 1. ‘Harmony of the Apocalypse with the Prophecies of Holy Scripture, with Notes,’ 8vo, London, 1848. 2. Three pamphlets, reissued together in 1850 with the general title of ‘Present Position of the Church,’ &c. 3. ‘Outlines of Ecclesiastical History before the Reformation,’ 18mo, London, 1852; 2nd edit. 1857. 4. ‘The Veracity of the Book of Genesis, with the Life and Character of the inspired Historian (with an appendix by Dr. Kurtz),’ 8vo, London, 1860. 5. ‘Letter to Bishop Colenso, wherein his objections to the Pentateuch are examined in detail,’ 8vo, London, 1863; 4th edit. same year, printed with the 2nd edit. of the treatise which follows. 6. ‘The Age and Authorship of the Pentateuch considered; in further reply to Bishop Colenso; part II.,’ 8vo, London, 1863. 

HOBART, GEORGE, third (1732–1804), eldest son of John, first earl [q. v.], by his second wife, Elizabeth Bristow, was born in 1732, and became a king's scholar at Westminster in 1746. In 1754 he was elected member of parliament for St. Ives, and in 1761, 1768, and 1774 for Beeralston. Hobart was fond of dramatic entertainments, and for a time was a manager of the opera in London. He was made in 1762 secretary to the embassy at St. Petersburg, where his half-brother John, second earl of Buckinghamshire, was ambassador. On 3 Aug. 1793 he succeeded as third earl. In 1797 he became colonel of the 3rd regiment of Lincolnshire militia, and in 1799 colonel in the army. He died on 14 Nov. 1804, at Nocton in Lincolnshire, and was buried in the family vault there. Hobart married on 22 May 1757 Albinia (d. 1816), eldest daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, granddaughter of Robert, first duke of Ancaster, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Of the sons, the eldest is separately noticed [see, fourth ]; George Vere (1761–1802) was for some time governor of Grenada; Charles, a lieutenant in the navy, was killed in 1782 in the action with the Comte de Grasse; and Henry Lewis (d. 1845) became dean of Windsor in 1816. 

HOBART, HENRY (d. 1625), chief justice of the common pleas, of a family long settled in Norfolk and Suffolk, was great-grandson of Sir James Hobart [q. v.], attorney-general to Henry VII, and son of Thomas Hobart of Plumstead, Norfolk, by Audrey, daughter of William Hare of Beeston, Norfolk. He was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn 10 Aug. 1575, and called to the bar 24 June 1584; he became a governor of the inn in 1591, and Lent reader in 1601 and 1603 (Black Book, v. 199, 359). He represented St. Ives, Cornwall, in parliament in 1588 and 1589, Yarmouth in 1597 and 1601, and Norwich from 1604 to 1610 (Members of Parliament, Official Returns, i. 422, 434, 439, 444). In 1595 he was steward of Norwich. In February 1603 with ten others he was made a serjeant-at-law, and was knighted on the accession of James I. On 2 Nov. 1605 he received a release from his office of serjeant-at-law, and next day was granted the attorney-generalship of the court of wards and liveries for life. He became attorney-general 4 July 1606, and continued in that office, barring Bacon's way to promotion, for seven years, to Bacon's intense annoyance. He was also chancellor to Henry, prince of Wales. He appeared for the plaintiffs in the case of the Post-nati (State Trials, ii. 609), and conducted the proceedings against Dr. Cowell's ‘Interpreter’ (Parl. Hist. ii. 1124). In May 1611 he was created a baronet. In 1613 he appeared against James Whitelocke, when Whitelocke was summoned before the council for contempt in giving an opinion on the navy commission. On the death of Sir Thomas Fleming, Coke was removed from the chief justiceship of the common pleas to that of the king's bench, and Hobart was appointed chief justice of the common pleas, 26 Nov. 1613. In 1617 he became chancellor and keeper of the great seal to Charles, prince of Wales, in succession to Bacon, and accordingly on 29 March he was discharged from so much of his oath of office as chief justice as prevented him from taking any fees except from the king. The Lord-chancellor Egerton being then ill, he, with Bacon and the Bishop