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Walter Hobhouse

Walter Hobhouse^[1] (5 April 1862 – 30 October 1928) was an eminent Anglican priest^[2] and author^[3] in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The second son of Bishop Edmund Hobhouse^[4] he was born on 5 April 1862 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Lecturer of Hertford College, Oxford, from 1884 to 1887; and then a Student^[5] and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1887^[6] to 1894. He was Headmaster of Durham School^[7] from 1894 to 1899; Editor of The Guardian^[8] from 1900^[9] to 1905; Chancellor of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, from 1905 to 1913; Archdeacon of Aston from 1912 to 1913; and Archdeacon of Gloucester^[10] from 1917^[11] to 1919.

He died on 30 October 1928.^[12]

References

^ NPG details
^ ‘HOBHOUSE, Rev. Walter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 8 April 2013
^ Amongst others he wrote "Theory and Practice of Ancient Education", 1885; "The Spiritual Standard", 1896; "Otium Didascali", 1898; "The Church and the World in Idea and in History", 1909) > British Library web site accessed 11:19 GMT Monday 8 April 2011
^ National Library of New Zealand
^ A Student at Christ Church is what elsewhere is called a Fellow
^ University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 11 May 1887; pg. 9; Issue 32069
^ School web site
^ Not to be confused with The Manchester Guardian
^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 25 January 1900; pg. 6; Issue 36048
^ National Archives
^ WALTER HOBHOUSE (Archdeacon of Gloucester) The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 10 July 1917; pg. 9; Issue 41526
^ The Rev. Dr. Walter Hobhouse. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 1 November 1928; pg. 16; Issue 45039

External links

Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Church of England titles
Preceded by Edward Scobell	Archdeacon of Gloucester 1903–1907	Succeeded by Charles Ridsdale
Preceded by Mansfield Owen	Archdeacon of Aston 1912–1913	Succeeded by George Gardner

Archdeacons of Aston

Mansfield Owen
Walter Hobhouse
George Gardner
Harold Richards
Henry McGowan
Michael Parker
Maxwell Dunlop
Francis Warman
Donald Tytler
John Cooper
John Barton
Brian Russell
Simon Heathfield

v t e Archdeacons of Gloucester
High Medieval	Thurstinus Robert Gervase Richard (I) Matthew William of Northall Robert de Inglesham Richard (II) John de Gray William de Verdun Maurice de Arundel William Lupus Thomas Hugh de Cantilupe Robert de Fangfoss John of Capévreux
Late Medieval	Walter de Burdon William de Birstone Nicholas de Hungate Hugh de Statherne Joceus de Kinebauton John de Uske Roger de Breynton Richard de Ledbury Thomas de Stratford Roger Peres William de Thirsford Nicholas Geyell Richard Winchcombe Nicholas Herbury Philip Polton John Kingscote John Segden Robert Morton John Dunmoe John de Gigliis
Early modern	Geoffrey Blythe Thomas Ruthall Peter Carmelian John Bell Nicholas Wotton John Williams Guy Etton George Savage Robert Hill Samuel Burton Hugh Robinson John Middleton Edward Pope John Gregory Thomas Hyde Robert Parsons Nathaniel Lye William Geekie Richard Hurd James Webster
Late modern	Timothy Stonhouse Vigor Thomas Rudge John Timbrill Sir George Prevost John Sheringham John Bowers Edward Scobell Walter Hobhouse Charles Ridsdale Austin Hodson Walter Wardle Chris Wagstaff Geoffrey Sidaway Jackie Searle Hilary Dawson (announced)