George Hobart-Hampden, 10th Earl of Buckinghamshire
George Miles Hobart-Hampden, 10th Earl of Buckinghamshire (born 15 December 1944) is a British peer and businessman.
He sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords from 1984 until the House of Lords Act 1999 came into force.[1]
The son of Cyril Langel Hobart-Hampden and his wife Margaret Jolliffe, he was educated at Clifton College and the University of Exeter, where he graduated with a BA in 1967, and then at Birkbeck College, London, and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, where he took a MA in 1968. From 1970 to 1981 he was with Noble Lowndes and partners and between 1981 and 1991 was a director of various companies within the Hong Kong Banking Group. In 1995 he was a partner in Watson Wyatt Worldwide.[2]
On 19 April 1983 Hobart-Hampden inherited from a cousin the peerages of Earl of Buckinghamshire (1746) and Baron Hobart of Blickling (1728) and the Hobart baronetcy (1611).[2]
On 27 July 1968 he married firstly Susan Jennifer Adams, a daughter of Raymond W. Adams. They divorced in 1975, and he married secondly Alison Wightman Forrest, daughter of William Forrest.[2]
Honours
[edit]- Fellow of the Institute of Directors, 1983
Notes
[edit]- ^ Earl of Buckinghamshire, members.parliament.uk, accessed 13 January 2023
- ^ a b c Burkes Peerage, volume 1 (2003) page 576
