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b. 1504 /5, 1st s. of William Hoby of Leominster by 1st w. Catherine Foster. m. by 1540, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Walter Stonor of Stonor, Oxon., wid. of Sir William Compton of Hawton, Notts. and Fenny Compton, Warws. and of Walter Welshe of Abberley and Elmley Castle, Worcs., s.p. suc. fa. aft. 1532. Kntd. 30 Sept. 1544.Aged 53 at death according to his MI, VCH Berks. iii. 150. Vis. Worcs. (Harl. Soc. xxvii), 80, 140; Cam. Misc. x(2), ped. facing p. xvi; Vis. Oxon. (Harl. Soc. v), 143; Misc. Gen. et Her. i. 143; Habington’s Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1899), ii. 2; Mill Stephenson, Mon. Brasses, 55; R. J. Stonor, Stonor, 238-9; LP Hen. VIII, iv, xix, DNB.
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Diplomatic envoy 1535 – 36, 1538; ambassador to Emperor May 1548 – Aug. 1550, Apr. – Aug. 1553; envoy to France May-June 1551, Netherlands Feb. 1552; groom, privy chamber by 1538, gent. usher by 1540; woodward, Ashwood, Leominster 25 Mar. 1538 – 28 Apr. 1546; gent. usher of the Black Rod and the order of the Garter 3 Nov. 1543–54; member, council of Queen Catherine Parr 1543 – 48; master of the ordnance northward 12 May 1545; j.p. Mdx. 1547, Worcs. 1547, q. 1554; master of the ordnance 26 Mar. 1547 – 11 May 1554; steward for Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, unknown property by 1548; commr. relief, Mdx. 1550, penal laws 1552, legal suits 1552, crown debts 1552, sale of crown lands 1552, 1553, goods of churches and fraternities, Berks. 1553; PC 16 Aug. 1551; keeper, great park of Vasterne, Wilts. by 1553; capital burgess, Leominster 28 Mar. 1554.LP Hen. VIII, viii-x, xiii, xv, xvi, xx; APC, iii. 334; iv. 98; 159; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 86, 91, 101; 1550–3, pp. 306, 352–5, 390–1, 393; 1553, pp. 184, 356, 413; 1553–4, pp. 25, 108, 112, 396; E101/423/12, ff. 8, 12; 163/12/17, no. 54; 315/340, f. 12v; Stowe 571, ff. 56v, 58v; Rep. R. Comm. of 1552 (Archs. of Brit. Hist. and Culture, iii), p. xxiv.

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HOBY, Sir Philip (1504/5-58), of Leominster, Herefs., Bisham, Berks. and the Blackfriars, London.
Main residences: Leominster, Herefs.; Bisham, Berks.; the Blackfriars, London.
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Commons 1509-1558
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HOBY, Sir Philip (1504/5-58)

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