Name John Baron Role Judge | Died March 15, 2004 | |
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Education Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford | ||
John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC (31 January 1932 – 15 March 2004) was a British judge and Law Lord.
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Hobhouse was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the son of Sir John Richard Hobhouse, a shipowner. 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, where he read Jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1955, He later became a Bencher. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1973.
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.
Family
Lord Hobhouse was married to Susannah Roskill. They had two sons and one daughter.
Notable cases
Notable judicial decisions in which Lord Hobhouse participated included: