Walter Hobhouse

Who was Walter Hobhouse?

Walter Hobhouse, DD was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The 2nd son of Bishop Edmund Hobhouse he was born on 5 April 1862 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Lecturer of Hertford College, Oxford from1884 to 1887; and then a Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford from 1887 to 1894. He was Headmaster of Durham School from 1894 to 1899; Editor of The Guardian from 1900 to 1905; Chancellor of Birmingham Cathedral from 1905 to 1913; Archdeacon of Aston from 1912 to 1913; and Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1917 to 1919.

He died on 30 October 1928.