Walter Hobhouse
Walter Hobhouse was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The second son of Bishop Edmund Hobhouse he was born on 5 April 1862 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Lecturer of Hertford College, Oxford from 1884 to 1887; and then a Student and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1887 to 1894. He was Headmaster of Durham School from 1894 to 1899; Editor of The Guardian from 1900 to 1905; Chancellor of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, from 1905 to 1913; Archdeacon of Aston from 1912 to 1913; and Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1917 to 1919.
He died on 30 October 1928.
