Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Hobson

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| image = Lord Hobson.jpg

| caption = Hobson in 1948

| birth_date ={{Birth date|1904|2|18|df=y}}

| birth_name = Charles Rider Hobson

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1966|2|17|1904|2|18|df=y}}

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| office = Member of Parliament for Keighley

| term_start = 23 February 1950

| term_end = 18 September 1959

| predecessor = Ivor Thomas

| successor = Marcus Worsley

| office2 = Member of Parliament for Wembley North

| term_start2 = 5 July 1945

| term_end2 = 3 February 1950

| predecessor2 = Constituency created

| successor2 = Eric Edward Bullus

| parliament = United Kingdom

| party = Labour

| spouse = {{marriage|Doris|1933}}

| children = Marian Hobson

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| nationality = British

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Charles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson (18 February 1904 – 17 February 1966) was a British Labour politician and life peer.

Political career

Hobson was Member of Parliament for Wembley North from 1945 to 1950{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F.W.S.|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949|date=1969|publisher=Political Reference Publications|location=Glasgow|isbn=0-900178-01-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/britishparliamen0000crai/page/269 269]|url=https://archive.org/details/britishparliamen0000crai/page/269}} and for Keighley from 1950 to 1959. He was Assistant Postmaster-General in 1947.{{Cite book|title=The Times' Guide to the House of Commons|year=1950}}

On 20 January 1964, he was created a life peer as Baron Hobson, of Brent in the County of Middlesex.{{London Gazette |issue=43225 |date=21 January 1964 |page=571}} He served as a Lord-in-waiting (whip) in the House of Lords from 1964 to his death.

Personal life

In 1933, Hobson married Doris Mary Spink, together they had one daughter, Marian Hobson.{{cite web |date=1 December 2007 |title=Hobson |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-51728 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U51728}} Marian would go on to be a scholar of French.{{cite web |date=1 December 2017 |title=Hobson, Prof. Marian Elizabeth |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-20336 |website=Who's Who 2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20336}}