HOBY

Rev. James ( son of George Hoby, boot maker to George III., St. James’ st. Piccadilly ). b. London 1788; ed. at Bristol Baptist coll. 1812; a ist. minister at Maze Pond chapel to 1823; minister at Birmingham, Weymouth and Twickenham; visited United States as one of a deputation from the Baptist Union 1836; author of Narrative of a visit to christian brethren in Hamburg, Copenhagen, etc. 1844; Memoir of William Yates, D.D. of Calcutta 1847 ; Anti-popery. A lecture 1851. d. Caterham 20 Nov. 1871. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men (1884) 242–3; Baptist Handbook 1872 p. 226.