HOBY, Sir Thomas, 4th Bt. (aft.1706-44), of Bisham, Berks.

During the seventeenth century several members of the Hoby family represented Great Marlow, where their estates across the Thames at Bisham gave them an interest. At a by-election in 1732 Sir Thomas Hoby was narrowly returned for the borough against Lord Sydney Beauclerk, whose petition to be heard at the bar of the House was rejected through Walpole’s influence.HMC Egmont Diary, i. 257. Though voting against the Government on the excise bill, 1733, and on the attempt to repeal the Septennial Act, 1734, he was supported by the Buckinghamshire gentry as a government candidate for the 1734 election,Cholmondeley (Houghton) mss 68. thereafter voting with the Administration. He died 1 June 1744.