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Arthur Hobhouse

1819–1904

Judge. BA, Oxford (Balliol), 1840. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1845; QC and bencher, 1862. Charity commissioner, 1866–72. Law member of the Council of the viceroy of India, 1872–7. Entered politics in 1880 but failed to win a seat. Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1881–1901.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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