Peregrine Hoby

Peregrine Hoby (1 September 1602 – 6 May 1679), was an English landowner and member of parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.

Early life Hoby was the illegitimate son and heir of Sir Edward Hoby of Bisham Abbey in Berkshire, by Katherine Pinckney, a favourite of James I. His father, who was twice married (including to Margaret Carey, a daughter of Queen Elizabeth's cousin Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon) but never to his mother, had no legitimate children but Peregrine was brought up by him nevertheless and eventually made his father's heir.

Hoby attended Eton College between 1612 and 1616. At his father's death in 1617, the elder Hoby committed him to the care of the Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot.

Career He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1640. In November 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Great Marlow in the Long Parliament in a disputed election. He was excluded in Pride's Purge in December 1648. In 1659 he was elected MP for Great Marlow in the Third Protectorate Parliament. Together, they had four sons and one daughter, including: Philip Hoby (–1678), who married Elizabeth Tyrrell, a daughter of Sir Timothy Tyrrell, a governor of Cardiff Castle, and sister of Sir Timothy and Sir Thomas Tyrrell. Thomas Hoby (1642–1706), an MP for Great Marlow and Salisbury who married his cousin, the Dowager Baroness Brooke (the former Anne Doddington), the daughter and heiress of John Doddington. She was the widow of Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (son of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke).

Hoby died on 6 May 1679. As his eldest son Edward predeceased him in 1675, Peregrine's heir was his second son, John, who also inherited his brother's baronetcy by special remainder. who both died unmarried at which time the baronetcy became extinct.