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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">English diplomat, Member of Parliament, scholar, and soldier</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg/250px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="314" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg/375px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg/500px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1583.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1779" data-file-height="2231" /></a><figcaption><i>Sir Edward Hoby</i> by an unknown artist, 1583</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Sir Edward Hoby</b> (1560 – 1 March 1617) was an <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">English</a> diplomat, Member of Parliament, scholar, and soldier during the reigns of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="James I of England">James I</a>. He was the son of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hoby" title="Thomas Hoby">Thomas Hoby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Cooke,_Lady_Russell" title="Elizabeth Cooke, Lady Russell">Elizabeth Cooke</a>, the nephew of <a href="/wiki/William_Cecil,_1st_Baron_Burghley" title="William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley">William Cecil, Lord Burghley</a>, and the son-in-law of Queen Elizabeth's cousin <a href="/wiki/Henry_Carey,_1st_Baron_Hunsdon" title="Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon">Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon</a>. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Favourite" title="Favourite">favourite</a> of King James, Hoby published several works supporting the <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> cause as well as translations from French and Spanish. His heir was his illegitimate son, <a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Hoby" title="Peregrine Hoby">Peregrine Hoby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Hoby&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born at <a href="/wiki/Bisham_Abbey" title="Bisham Abbey">Bisham Abbey</a>, Berkshire, in 1560, Edward Hoby was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hoby and his wife Elizabeth, third daughter of Sir <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Cooke" title="Anthony Cooke">Anthony Cooke or Coke</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gidea_Hall" title="Gidea Hall">Gidea Hall</a>, Essex. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton</a>, where he formed a lasting friendship with <a href="/wiki/John_Harington_(inventor)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Harington (inventor)">Sir John Harington</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Oxford" title="Trinity College, Oxford">Trinity College, Oxford</a>. At Trinity <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Lodge" title="Thomas Lodge">Thomas Lodge</a>, who later became a dramatist, was "servitor or scholar" under him.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg/170px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg/255px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg/340px-Sir_Edward_Hoby_1578.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="845" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Hoby, aged 18 (now in Ipswich Museum)</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the auspices of his uncle, Lord Burghley,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he rose into high favour at the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_era" title="Elizabethan era">Elizabethan</a> court and was frequently employed on confidential missions.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hoby's fortunes were further advanced by his marriage, on 21 May 1582, to Margaret, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Carey,_1st_Baron_Hunsdon" title="Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon">Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon</a>, cousin of Queen Elizabeth. The day after the wedding he was <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighted</a> by the Queen.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1584 he accompanied his father-in-law Hunsdon on a special mission to <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. His affability and learning greatly impressed King James VI (later James of England), and after attending the Scottish ambassador, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Gray,_6th_Lord_Gray" title="Patrick Gray, 6th Lord Gray">Patrick, Master of Gray</a>, as far as <a href="/wiki/Durham,_England" title="Durham, England">Durham</a>, Hoby received from the Scottish king a flattering letter, dated 24 October 1584, in which James intimated his longing for his company, and how he had "commanded his ambassador to sue for it". <a href="/wiki/James_Stewart,_Earl_of_Arran" title="James Stewart, Earl of Arran">James Stewart, Earl of Arran</a> also wrote to the same effect, and enclosed a "small token", which he begged Hoby to wear in "testimony of their brotherhood". These amenities proved displeasing to Elizabeth, and Hoby found it convenient for a time to plead the ague as an excuse for not attending the court.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 24 September 1586, he was returned as one of the two members of parliament for <a href="/wiki/Queenborough" title="Queenborough">Queenborough</a>, Kent, and gained distinction as a speaker in <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_England" title="Parliament of England">Parliament</a>. That October he complained that he had been "not only bitten but overpassed by the hard hand of" <a href="/wiki/Francis_Walsingham" title="Francis Walsingham">Francis Walsingham</a>, and appealed to Secretary <a href="/wiki/William_Davison_(diplomat)" title="William Davison (diplomat)">William Davison</a> to use his influence with the queen on his behalf. Restored to favour, in July 1588, Hoby was chosen to report to the queen on the progress of the preparations against the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a>. That October (1588), he was elected a <a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_shire" title="Knight of the shire">knight of the shire</a> for <a href="/wiki/Berkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Berkshire</a>. He was made <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_peace" title="Justice of the peace">justice of the peace</a> for <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a> by a special renewal of the commission on 17 December 1591. In 1592 he was chosen as a knight of the shire for <a href="/wiki/Kent_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kent (UK Parliament constituency)">Kent</a>, and in 1594 was granted letters patent for buying and providing <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">wool</a> for sale in England for ten years, and the grant was ratified in the succeeding reign.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hoby accompanied the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Devereux,_2nd_Earl_of_Essex" title="Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex">Earl of Essex</a> on his expedition to <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A1diz" title="Cádiz">Cádiz</a> in 1596, and was made constable of <a href="/wiki/Queenborough_Castle" title="Queenborough Castle">Queenborough Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Sheppey" title="Isle of Sheppey">Isle of Sheppey</a>, Kent, on 9 July 1597. On the following 28 October Hoby received a commission to search out and prosecute all offences against the statute prohibiting the exportation of iron from England, his reward being half the forfeitures arising therefrom. He represented <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_Kent" title="Rochester, Kent">Rochester</a> in the parliaments of 1597, 1601, February 1604, and 1614. James I made him a <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_of_the_Privy_Chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Gentleman of the Privy Chamber">Gentleman of the Privy Chamber</a>, forgave his arrears of rent of the Royal Manor of <a href="/wiki/Shirland" title="Shirland">Shirland</a> in Derbyshire (amounting to over £500), and on 21 August 1607 granted him an exclusive licence to buy wool in <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>. He frequently entertained the king at Bisham.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hoby's first wife died in 1605. He subsequently married Elizabeth (d. 1611/12), daughter of <a href="/wiki/John_Danvers_(died_1594)" title="John Danvers (died 1594)">John Danvers</a> in 1606 and Cicely Unton (d. 1618), the daughter of Sir Edward Unton and Lady Anne Seymour, and widow of <a href="/wiki/John_Wentworth_(died_1613)" title="John Wentworth (died 1613)">John Wentworth</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gosfield_Hall" title="Gosfield Hall">Gosfield Hall</a>, Essex in 1614.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Hoby&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hoby died in <a href="/wiki/Queenborough" title="Queenborough">Queenborough</a> Castle on 1 March 1617. He and his wives had no children, but he brought up his illegitimate son by Katherine Pinkney, Peregrine Hoby, and made the boy his heir.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Hoby&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An excellent scholar himself, Hoby cultivated the friendship of learned men, especially that of <a href="/wiki/William_Camden" title="William Camden">William Camden</a>, who eulogises his bounty and accomplishments in his <i>Britannia</i>. Camden also dedicated his <i>Hibernia</i> (1587) to him.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1612 Hoby presented a copy of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Savile_(Bible_translator)" title="Henry Savile (Bible translator)">Sir Henry Savile</a>'s sumptuous edition of <i>St Chrysostom</i> to the library of Trinity College, Oxford. Hoby was also a keen <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> theologian, sparring in print with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> convert <a href="/wiki/Theophilus_Higgons" title="Theophilus Higgons">Theophilus Higgons</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuit">Jesuit</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Floyd_(Jesuit)" title="John Floyd (Jesuit)">John Fludd or Floyd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hoby's theological writings include: </p> <ul><li><i>A Letter to Mr. T[heophilus] H[iggons], late Minister: now Fugitive ... in answere of his first Motive,</i> (1609), which was answered by Higgons during the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>A Counter-snarle for Ishmael Rabshakeh a Cycropedian Lycaonite</i> (1613), being a reply to <i>The Overthrow of the Protestants Pulpet Babels,</i> by "J. R." (John Fludd or Floyd). Floyd forthwith replied with his <i>Purgatories triumph over Hell, maugre the barking of Cerberus in Syr Edward Hobyes "Counter-snarle"</i> (1613).<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>A Curry-combe for a сохе-combe . . . In answer to a lewd Libel lately foricated by Jabal Rachil against Sir Edward Hobies "Counter-Snarle," entitled "Purgatories triumph over Hell,"</i> (1615), written under the ponderous pseudonym of "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi," in the form of a dialogue.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Hoby also translated <a href="/wiki/Matthieu_Coignet" title="Matthieu Coignet">Matthieu Coignet</a>'s <i>Politique discourses on trueth and lying</i> from French (1586), and <a href="/wiki/Bernardino_de_Mendoza_(Diplomat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernardino de Mendoza (Diplomat)">Bernardino de Mendoza</a>'s <i>Theorique and Practise of Warre</i> from Spanish (1597).<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading 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London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Hoby%2C+Edward&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+%26+Co&rft.date=1885%2F1900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Hoby" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cooper, <i>A Guide to Tudor & Jacobean Portraits</i>, p. 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burghley's wife, Mildred Cooke, was the sister of Hoby's mother, Elizabeth Cooke.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/hoby-sir-edward-1560-1617">"HOBY, Sir Edward (1560-1617), of Shurland House, Eastchurch, Kent; Queenborough Castle, Isle of Sheppey, Kent; Bisham Abbey, Berks. and St. Anne Blackfriars, London"</a>. History of Parliament<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 November</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=HOBY%2C+Sir+Edward+%281560-1617%29%2C+of+Shurland+House%2C+Eastchurch%2C+Kent%3B+Queenborough+Castle%2C+Isle+of+Sheppey%2C+Kent%3B+Bisham+Abbey%2C+Berks.+and+St.+Anne+Blackfriars%2C+London&rft.pub=History+of+Parliament&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.histparl.ac.uk%2Fvolume%2F1604-1629%2Fmember%2Fhoby-sir-edward-1560-1617&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Hoby" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Hoby&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tarnya_Cooper" title="Tarnya Cooper">Cooper, Tarnya</a>, <i>A Guide to Tudor & Jacobean Portraits</i>, London, National Portrait Gallery, 2008, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85514-393-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85514-393-7">978-1-85514-393-7</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Hoby&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.badsey.net/past/hoby.htm">Hoby family tree</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">"<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Hoby,_Edward" class="extiw" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hoby, Edward">Hoby, Edward</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. 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