John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton

John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (* June 27, 1786 in Redland, Bristol City today, † June 3, 1869 ) was an English statesman.

Hobhouse, son of the rich brewer, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, studied at Cambridge at the same time with Lord George Gordon Byron, whom he accompanied to the Orient in 1809.

He returned, however, when he had seen a part of Turkey in Europe, returned to England and gave a description of his journey under the title Journey into Albania and other provinces of the Turkish Empire (London 1812, new ed 1855) out.

The fourth song dedicated to him, Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage of which contains the Italian trip, he accompanied with notes. During the rule of the Hundred Days he was in France, and after the battle of Waterloo, he published Letters written by an Englishman falling on the load reign of Napoleon (London 1815), who took open for Napoleon party and the author treat injuries sustained many temptations.

A passage in a pamphlet written by Hobhouse, which was declared by the House of Commons as a breach of its privileges, put him in jail in 1819, 1820 but for Westminster to the House, where he joined the radicals. Soon after, he founded with other influential leaders the same the Westminster Review.

He later proposed a more moderate direction, stepped in 1831 as Minister of War in the Ministry Grey and in 1833 Secretary of State for Ireland. As soon after the lifting of the house and window tax was applied in the House, had declared against the Hobhouse sooner, but which he now held as a member of the Government to be necessary, he resigned from the Ministry and from the parliament and retired from public matters back.

But he took in July 1834 after Grey's resignation again the post of Chief Commissioner of the domains and a seat in the cabinet and came back for Nottingham to the House. From 1839 to 1841 he was among Melbourne president of the Assay Office for the East Indies. When the Whigs in 1846 came again into power, Hobhouse was. again President of the Indian Office, but lost because he had abandoned his radical principles, let in the elections of 1847 is based in Nottingham and had to choose for the infamous by its venality spots Harwich; his official activities was attacked hard.

In February 1851 at the dissolution of the Russian Ministry Hobhouse Baron Broughton was elevated to de Gyfford and peer, but returned in the reconstitution of the Ministry Russell back to his old post, and took until January 1852 definitely his dismissal. He died on June 3, 1869 with no children, so his peerage became extinct again.