BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 403 XVI. 1793. 3. George (Hobart), Earl of Buckinghamshire, tsfc, br. (of the half blood) and h. male, being 4th s. of the 1st Earl, but ist s. by his 2nd wife; b. in London 8 Sep., and bap. 10 Oct. 1 73 1, at Blickling. Ed. at Westm. school; M.P. (Whig) for St. Ives, 1754-61, for Beeralston, 1761-80; Sec. to Embassy at St. Peters- burg, 1762; Col. in the Army, during service, 1799. He w., 16 May 1757, at Chislehurst, Kent, Albinia,('") ist da. and coh. of Lord Vere Bertie (s. of Robert, ist Duke of Ancaster), by Ann Casey, illegit. da. of Sir Cecil Wray, Bart. He d. 14 Nov. 1804, aged 73, at Nocton,{) CO. Lincoln, and was bur. there. Will pr. i8o4.() His widow d. 1 1 Mar. 1816, in her 78th year, at Nocton. Will pr. July 1818. XVn. 1804. 4. Robert (Hobart), Earl OF Buckinghamshire, iJifc., 2nd but ist surv. s. and h., b. 6 May 1760; ed. at Westm. school; entered the army, 1776; Capt. 30th Foot, 1778; Major 1 8th Light Dragoons, 1783-84; M.P. [I.] for Portarlington, i784-90,() and for Armagh, 1790-97; M.P. [E.] (Tory) for Bramber, 178 8-90; (') for Lincoln, 1790-96; Ch. Sec. to the Lord Lieut. [I.], 1789-93; P.C. [I.] 21 Apr. 1789; P.C. [E.] I May 1793; Governor of Madras, i 793-98. (*) Clerk of the Pleas of the Exchequer [I.] 1798 till his death. On 30N0V. 1798 he was sum. to the House of Peers, v.p., in his father's Barony, as LORD HOBART OF BLICKLING.(8) Sec. of State for War and Colonies, Mar. 1 801-04; Chancellor of the IDuchy of Lancaster, Jan. to July 1 805, and (*) " Mrs. H-b-t is now an assiduous votary at the shrine of Plutus. The title of B-k-h-s brought an accession of dignity without an accession of fortune, and to supply the deficiency of the latter she is liberal in prostituting the former. Twice a week a public faro bank is kept at her house; and the unfledged ensigns of the guards . . . with those unfortunate exiles from the rage of a democracy whose slender hoards are not totally exhausted are invited to contribute in a polite way to the establishment of this needy Countess." {The Whig Club, 1794, pp. 190-191). See also note lub Mount Edgcumbe. V.G. () He inherited the estate of Nocton from his distant cousin, Sir Richard Ellis, Bart., of Wyham. (■=) According to Gent. Mag., he was, before his accession to the peerage, "a conductor of the opera entertainments." V.G. (<') " Mr. Hobart's voice is naturally good, clear, full, well-toned, and with sufficient compass, but he much injures it by a species of affectation that reduces it nearly to a feminine lisp; adopted perhaps from his familiar intercourse with pretty ladies and pretty gentlemen." {A Review of the Irish House of Commons, 1789). V.G. f') He was an adherent of Addington, and with him. Fox and the Whigs, was a member of the "All the Talents" Ministry in 1806; he opposed Portland and Perceval, but joined Liverpool's Govt, in 1812. See also vol. i, p. 423, note "e." V.G. (') The Directors of the East India Co. voted him a pension of ^^1,500 p.a., but this was not confirmed by the Court of Proprietors. V.G. (8) For a list of such summonses see vol. i. Appendix G. V.G.
