Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Baronet

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Sir Charles (Edward Henry) Hobhouse, 4th Baronet TD, JP (30 June 1862 – 26 June 1941) was a British Liberal politician.

The eldest son of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and served as a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles from 1884-1890.

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Devizes from 1892-1895 and for Bristol East from 1900-1918.

He was a Private Secretary at the Colonial Office from 1892-1895, a Church Estates Commissioner from 1906-1907, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India from 1907-1908, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1908-1911, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1911-1914 and Postmaster-General from 1914-1915.

He also served as a County Alderman for Wiltshire from 1893-1924, and was an Honorary Colonel of the Royal Tank Regiment.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1909 and succeeded his father as 4th Baronet in 1916.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Walter Hume Long	Member of Parliament for Devizes 1892–1895	Succeeded by Edward Alfred Goulding
Preceded by Sir William Henry Wills	Member of Parliament for Bristol East 1900–1918	Succeeded by George Bryant Britton
Political offices
Preceded by John Edward Ellis	Under-Secretary of State for India 1907–1908	Succeeded by Thomas Ryburn Buchanan
Preceded by Walter Runciman	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1908-1911	Succeeded by Thomas McKinnon Wood
Preceded by Joseph Pease	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1911-1914	Succeeded by Charles Masterman
Preceded by Herbert Samuel	Postmaster-General 1914-1915	Succeeded by Herbert Samuel
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Hobhouse	Baronet of Westbury, Gloucestershire 1916–1941	Succeeded by Reginald Hobhouse