Background
He was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
judge politician Member of the House of Lords
He was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
He was educated at Street 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.
He later received a knighthood. 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.
Lord Hobhouse was married to Susannah Roskill.
He was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1993, when he was also made a member of the Privy Council.