John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough
Noble person
1932 – 2004
Who was John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough?
John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC was a British judge and Law Lord.
He was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool. He was educated at St Andrew's, Pangbourne, and Eton. After working abroad in Australia and New Zealand on a sheep farm, Hobhouse returned to Christ Church, Oxford in 1951. He became a barrister and was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1955. He later became a Bencher.
Hobhouse was made a High Court Judge in 1982. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1993, when he was also made a member of the Privy Council. He later received a knighthood. On 1 October 1998 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, becoming a life peer as Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, of Woodborough in the County of Wiltshire.
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