BROUGHTON, brou'ton, ,TOIIN CAM Hon HOUSE, Baron (1786-1869). An English states urn and writer, the friend of Byron. He was born in Bristol, June 27, 1786. Ile was educated at Westminster and at Cambridge, where, in 1808, he obtained both the Hulsean prize and his B.A. degree, graduating M.A. in 1811. In 1809 he visited Spain, Portugal, Albania, Greece. and Tur key, with Byron. In 1813 he followed the allied armies, and was present at the battle of Dresden and at Paris when Louis XVIII. returned in 1814. When Napoleon escaped from Elba, Hob house again sought Paris, and the following year published the Hundred Days in Paris. The work, of Napoleonistic sympathies. gave great offense both in England and France. The trans lator and printer in Paris were sentenced to fine and imprisonment for an 'atrocious libel,' and in London Hobhouse was confined in Newgate nearly three months. On his release he joined Byron near Geneva, and together they visited Venice and Rome. As a martyr to Toryism, in 1819, he unsuccessfully contested the parliamen tary borough of Westminster, but the following year he was elected by a large majority. For 12
years he was an advocate of liberal measures, among them the repeal of the Test and Corpora tions acts and Roman Catholic emancipation. In 1831 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy, and in the same year was Secretary of War in the Grey Ministry. Subsequently he was chief commissioner of woods and forests and presi dent of the board of control. In 1851 he was raised to the peerage and created Baron Brough ton. At his death, June 3, 18(39, the title be came extinct, while the baronetcy passed to his nephew. Lord Broughton published: Imitations and Translations front the Classics ( 1809 ) Journey Through Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey (1812) ; and Historical Illustrations of the Fourth ('anto of Childe Harold (1S1S). As Byron's intimate friend he was dissuaded from replying to Lady Byron's Remarks, but wrote a manuscript, now in possession of Lady Dorchester, containing a "full and scrupulously accurate account of the separation, to be used if necessary."