Daisy L. Hobman

Daisy L. Hobman (née Adler; 17 November 1891 – 24 December 1961) was a feminist writer, biographer, social worker, and founding member of Brighton and Hove Humanist Group. She was the first person to gain an Oxford diploma in social studies. gaining a Diploma in Economics and Political Science. The couple's son, David Burton Hobman (1927–2003), raised in this "freethinking intellectual family", Hobman's biography of Thurloe—Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State—was described by The Times as having:real merit and charm, due mainly to the agreeable manner in which she rambles along commenting on anything in Thurloe's papers which engages her attention. Nothing was too large or too small to enter Thurloe's net, and Mrs. Hobman's capacity for selecting the best from his catch is unfailing. Hobman also assisted Vera Brittain in the preparation of her book The Women at Oxford; a fragment of a history, This was described as a "vivid word picture... of a German village, its folk, and the disasters, domestic and social, that befell the residents".

Hobman, alongside H. J. Blackham and Denis Cobell, was an active part of the "secular-humanist scene" during the 1950s, and a founding member of the Brighton and Hove Humanist Group. On her death, on 24 December 1961, she was lauded for her "criticism and generosity", which she was said to have "wielded in a lifelong campaign for honesty and courage".