John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough

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John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC, (31 January 1932 – 15 March 2004), 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 and received the customary knighthood. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1993, when he was also made a member of the Privy Council.

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.^[1]

Lord Hobhouse was married to Susannah Roskill. They had two sons and one daughter.

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1. ^ House of Lords (1998-10-07). Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords. minutes of proceedings. Retrieved on 2006-11-19.

• The Guardian (2004-03-27). Obituary. Retrieved on 2006-11-19.