HOBY, Thomas Posthumous (1566-1640), of Hackness, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. Oct. 1566, 2nd and post. s. of Sir Thomas Hoby and bro. of Edward. educ. Trinity Coll. Oxf 1574; G. Inn 1588. m. 9 Aug. 1596, Margaret, da. of Arthur Dakins of Linton, wid. of Walter Devereux (d.s.p. 1591), yr. s. of Walter, 1st Earl of Essex, and of Thomas Sidney (d.s.p. 1595), s. of the lord deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, s.p. Kntd. 7 duly 1594.

Offices Held

J.p. Yorks. (E. Riding) from c. 1596, (N. Riding) by 1601, custos rot. c. 1621; eccles. commr. province of York 1599; member, council in the north 1603, vice-pres. 1605; senior bailiff, Scarborough 1610.C193/13/1; Hist. Scarborough, ed. A Rowntree, 399.

Parlimentarian

HOBY, Sir Thomas Posthumous (1566-1640), of Hackness, nr. Scarborough, Yorks. and Blackfriars, London; later of Twickenham, Mdx.

Main residence: Hackness, Yorks.

Notes

Except where stated this life is based upon the introduction to the Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, by Dorothy M. Meads, and the authorities therein referred to. See also, for Hoby’s marriage, Claire M. Cross, The Puritan Earl.

Author

E.L.C.M.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

HOBY, Thomas Posthumous (1566-1640)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

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