Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire PC ( * May 6, 1760; † February 4, 1816 in London) was a British politician.

Life

Hobart was the son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire, and his wife Albinia, daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, younger son of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. He attended Westminster School in London.

He was from 1784 to 1797 a member of the Irish House of Commons. He sat from 1788 to 1796 in the British House of Commons. In 1793 he became a member of the Privy Council and Governor of Madras, where he remained until 1797. On his return to Britain in 1798 he was appointed to the House of Lords by premature acquisition of subsidiary title Baron Hobart of his father ( Writ of acceleration ). From 1801 to 1804 he served as war and colonial secretary, in 1805 and 1812 as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1806-1807 as the Postmaster General and as President of the Board of Control from 1812 to 1816.

Hobart married in 1792 his first wife Margaretta, daughter of Edmund Bourke. They had one son who died in infancy, and a daughter, Lady Sarah, who married the British Prime Minister Lord Goderich and the mother of George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon was. After the death of his first wife Margaretta in 1796 he married Eleanor Agmes 1799, a daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland. With her he had no children. Lord Buckinghamshire died in February 1816 at the age of 55 years after he had fallen from his horse. The heir was his nephew George.

The capital of Tasmania, Hobart, was named after him.