Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire PC (6 May 1760 - 4 February 1816), known as Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a British Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th century. Buckinghamshire was the son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire and Albinia, daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, younger son of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. He was educated at Westminster School, London. Buckinghamshire was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for Portarlington from 1784 to 1790 and thereafter for Armagh Borough from 1790 to 1797. He sat also in the British House of Commons for the rotten borough of Bramber in 1788, a seat he held until 1790, and then for Lincoln from 1790 to 1796. In 1793 he was invested a member of the Privy Council, and appointed Governor of Madras, in which post he remained until 1797.