Peregrine Hoby


Peregrine Hoby, was an English landowner and member of parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.

Early life

Hoby was the illegitimate son and heir of Sir Edward Hoby of Bisham Abbey in Berkshire, by Katherine Pinckney, and a favourite of James I. His father, who was twice married but never to his mother, had no legitimate children but Peregrine was brought up by him nevertheless and eventually made his father's heir.
His father was the eldest son of the English Ambassador to France Sir Thomas Hoby and his wife Elizabeth Cooke and his younger brother was Thomas Posthumous Hoby. After his grandfather's death in Paris while Ambassador, his grandmother remarried to John, Lord Russell, eldest surviving son and heir to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford. His father was also the nephew of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
Hoby attended Eton College between 1612 and 1616. At his father's death in 1617, the elder Hoby committed him to the care of the Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot.

Career

He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1640. In November 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Great Marlow in the Long Parliament in a disputed election. He was excluded in Pride's Purge in December 1648. In 1659 he was elected MP for Great Marlow in the Third Protectorate Parliament.
He was also elected in 1660 for the Convention Parliament and in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. He sat until 1679 and died later in the same year at the age of 76.

Personal life

On 14 April 1631, Hoby married Katherine Doddington daughter and co-heiress of Mary Doddington and Sir William Doddington of Breamore House in Hampshire. Among her siblings were brothers Herbert and John Doddington, both MPs for Lymington like their father. Together, they had four sons and one daughter, including:
Hoby died on 6 May 1679. As his eldest son Edward predeceased him in 1675, Peregrine's heir was his second son, John, who also inherited his brother's baronetcy by special remainder.

Descendants

Through his grandson Sir Thomas Hoby, 3rd Baronet, the High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1715, he was a great-grandfather of Sir Thomas Hoby, 4th Baronet and the Rev. Sir Philip Hoby, 5th Baronet, who both died unmarried at which time the baronetcy became extinct.