Walter Hobhouse[1] (5 April 1862 – 30 October 1928) was an eminent Anglican priest[2] and author[3] in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The second son of Bishop Edmund Hobhouse[4] he was born on 5 April 1862 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He was Fellow and Lecturer of Hertford College, Oxford, from 1884 to 1887; and then a Student[5] and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1887[6] to 1894. He was Headmaster of Durham School[7] from 1894 to 1899; Editor of The Guardian[8] from 1900[9] to 1905; Chancellor of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, from 1905 to 1913; Archdeacon of Aston from 1912 to 1913; and Archdeacon of Gloucester[10] from 1917[11] to 1919.
He died on 30 October 1928.[12]