Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet

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Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet (19 April 1593 – 20 April 1647){{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsH3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224908/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsH3.htm |archive-date=1 May 2008 |title=Leigh Rayment - Baronetage |url-status=usurped |access-date=19 June 2009}} was an English politician and baronet.

Background

Born in Norwich, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet, and his wife Dorothy Bell, daughter of Sir Robert Bell. Hobart was knighted at Whitehall on 10 November 1611,{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/n159|title=The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland|year=1906}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/hobart-sir-john-ii-1593-1647#footnote8_xp0p75e|title=HOBART, Sir John II (1593-1647), of Blickling and Chapel Field, Norwich, Norf. | History of Parliament Online}} and succeeded his father as baronet in 1625.{{cite book |title=La Belle Assemblée or Court and Fashionable Magazine |publisher=Geo. B. Whittaker |location=London |volume=III |year=1826 |pages=142}}

Career

Hobart was Member of Parliament for Cambridge in 1621, Lostwithiel from 1624 to 1625 and Brackley in 1626. He then returned to the Long Parliament for Norfolk in 1645, a seat he held until his death in 1647.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/hobart-sir-john-ii-1593-1647 |title=HOBART, Sir John II (1593-1647), of Blickling and Chapel Field, Norwich, Norf. |publisher=History of Parliament Online |access-date=20 April 2013}}

He was Justice of the Peace for Middlesex from 1624 to 1629 and for Norfolk from 1625 to his death, and was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1632–33.

His second wife, Frances Hobert, managed his large debts as he completed the building of Blickling Hall, a major Jacobean country house.{{Cite book |last=Allen |first=Elizabeth |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-66725 |title=Hobart [née Egerton], Lady Frances (1603–1664), religious patron and benefactor |date=2004-09-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/66725}}

Family

He married firstly in July 1614 Lady Philippa Sidney, a daughter of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester.Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, Court and Times of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1849), p. 332. They had a daughter. Philippa died in 1620.William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 421. and Hobart married secondly Lady Frances Egerton, eldest daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgwater in February 1621, and they had by nine children but only one child, Phillipa, survived.{{cite book |last=Collins |first=Arthur |editor=Sir Egerton Brydges |publisher=T. Bensley |title=Collins's Peerage of England |volume=IV |year=1812 |location=London |pages=365–367}} He died, aged 54, in Norwich after a long illness and was buried in Blickling in Norfolk nine days later.{{cite web |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p17557.htm#i175570 |title=ThePeerage - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Bt |access-date=31 December 2006}} Hobart was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew John.{{cite book |last=Burke |first=John |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |publisher=Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley |location=London |volume=I |edition=4th |year=1832 |pages=173}}