John Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough

John Stewart Hobhouse, Baron Hobhouse of Woodborough, PC, (31 January 1932 – 15 March 2004), was a British judge and Law Lord.

He was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool. 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. He became a barrister and was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1955. He later became a Bencher.

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. [cite web | url= http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/minutes/981007/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 1998-10-07| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-11-19]

Lord Hobhouse was married to Susannah Roskill. They had two sons and one daughter.

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*cite web | url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1179125,00.html| title= Obituary| author= "The Guardian"| date= 2004-03-27| accessdate= 2006-11-19