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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Broughton De Gyfford    
First Name(s)  John Cam Hobhouse    
Year of Birth  1786    
Year of Death  1869    
Entry  Son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart. born June 27, 1786 : educated at Bristol, Westminister and Trinity College, Cambridge : friend of Byron and travelled with him on the Continent : committed to Newgate from Dec. 14, 1819, to Feb. 29, 1820, for breach of privilege of the House of Commons : M.P. for Westminster, 1820 : succeeded as Baronet in 1831 : Secretary at War, 1832-3 : Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1833, resigned : M.P. for Nottingham, 1834 : Commissioner of Woods and Forests : President of the Board of Control, April 23, 1835, to Sep. 4, 1841 : again from July 8, 1846, to Feb. 3, 1852 : on his advice the appointment of Lord Heytesbury in 1835-6, to succeed Lord W. Bentinck as Governor-General was cancelled : he supported Lord Auckland's Afghan policy : M.P. for Harwich in 1848 : made a peer in 1851 : K.C.B. in 1852 : died June 3, 1869 : wrote his Recollections of a Long Life, and a number of papers on literary, classical, political and historical subjects.     
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