Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

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Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, PC (6 May 1760 – 4 February 1816), known as Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a Tory Party politician of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Buckinghamshire was the son of George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire and Albinia Bertie, granddaughter of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. He was elected Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Bramber in 1788, a seat he held until 1790, and then sat for Lincoln from 1790 to 1796. He was also MP for Armagh Borough in the Irish House of Commons from 1790 to 1797. In 1793 he was invested a member of the Privy Council, and appointed Governor of Madras, in which post he remained until 1797. On his return to Britain in 1797 he was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father’s junior title of Baron Hobart. He later served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1801 to 1804, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1805 and again in 1812, as Postmaster General from 1806 to 1807 and as President of the Board of Control from 1812 to 1816.

Lord Buckinghamshire died in February 1816 at the age of 55. He was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew George Robert Hobart-Hampden, 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire.

Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is named after him.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe, Bt Daniel Pulteney	Member of Parliament for Bramber with Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe, Bt 1788–1790	Succeeded by Sir Henry Gough-Calthorpe, Bt Thomas Coxhead
Preceded by John Fenton-Cawthorne Richard Lumley-Saunderson	Member of Parliament for Lincoln with John Fenton-Cawthorne 1790–1796 George Rawdon 1796 1790–1796	Succeeded by George Rawdon Richard Ellison
Political offices
Preceded by Alleyne FitzHerbert	Chief Secretary for Ireland 1789–1793	Succeeded by Sylvester Douglas
Preceded by —	Secretary of State for War and the Colonies 1801–1804	Succeeded by The Earl Camden
Preceded by The Lord Mulgrave	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1805	Succeeded by The Lord Harrowby
Preceded by Spencer Perceval	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1812	Succeeded by Charles Bathurst
Preceded by The Viscount Melville	President of the Board of Control 1812–1816	Succeeded by George Canning
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by George Hobart	Earl of Buckinghamshire 1804–1816	Succeeded by George Hobart-Hampden
	Baron Hobart 1797–1816