John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough

For other people named John Hobhouse, see John Hobhouse (disambiguation).

Eton College

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. He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1993, when he was also made a member of the Privy Council. He later received a knighthood. 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.

Family

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