Hobhouse

[5] Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1757 – 1831; DNB), a politician who campaigned in the Bristol election of 1796 on a Whig, reformist and pro-peace platform.

Letter 158 1796

He was accustomed to ride on horseback with the different friends who chanced to arrive from England: such as Hobhouse, Monk Lewis, Rose,

Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836

The radical liberal Leonard Hobhouse praised taxation as the fee we duly pay to the state in return for it collectively providing the infrastructure and services we need and from which we all prosper.

University fees are going to rise. They have to be fair to the poor Will Hutton 2010

His attention to refuseniks of one kind and another is striking, too: the story of fighting in France is punctuated at regular intervals, throughout its long and winding course, with well-furnished accounts of people who challenged Kitchener's assertion that their country needed them to fight: Bertrand Russell and Emily Hobhouse; Keir Hardie and Charlotte Despard; Stephen Hobhouse and Sylvia Pankhurst.

To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild – review 2011

Councillor Wera Hobhouse claimed the new shakers would mean “everybody was a winner”.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

A few years later, however, news reached me that a small boy had won the All Cornwall Primary Schools L.T. Hobhouse Recitation Contest at a preternaturally early age, and I soon guessed who the child he was.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Hobhouse, Wheeler, and Ginsberg 1930 rated the level and complexity of development of some 200 societies.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

- Inside Asquith's Cabinet: From the Diaries of Charles Hobhouse (1893-1915); not a page turner but still worth perusal

My Top Ten Political Diaries 2006

Hobhouse, Wheeler, and Ginsberg 1930 rated the level and complexity of development of some 200 societies.

The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

Seven years later took place the dramatic conference of Byron's relatives and executors, at which, after Moore and Hobhouse had nearly come to blows, the manuscript of the unpublished MEMOIRS of the poet was irrevocably burnt.

While Cathy Adores the Minuet Roger Sutton 2006