{{Short description|English royal official}} {{EngvarB|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} [[File:Kneeling figures of Lady and Sir James Hobart.tif|thumb|The kneeling figures of Sir James Hobart and his third wife, Lady Margaret Hobart. A copy of the east window in Holy Trinity Church, Loddon. Blickling Hall, National Trust.]] Sir '''James Hobart''', also known as '''James Hoberd''' and '''James Hubbard''', (1436<ref name="Art UK" /> – after 1507) of [[Norfolk]] became a member of [[Lincoln's Inn]] during [[Edward IV of England]]'s reign and was appointed attorney-general and knighted during the reign of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]].<ref name="DNB" />
==Career== Hobart became a member of Lincoln's Inn during Edward IV's reign. He performed some legal services for [[John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk|John Mowbray]], duke of Norfolk and is likely the James Hoberd who went to parliament in 1467 and 1478, representing [[Ipswich]]. Hobart was elected [[Reader (Inns of Court)|Lent reader]] at his inn in 1479.<ref name="DNB" />
Henry VII appointed Hobart attorney-general on 1 November 1486. He then became a member of the [[privy council]].<ref name="DNB" /> Hobart was one of the men appointed to seize [[Calais]] for Henry VII and take possessions of the king and other townspeople.<ref name="DNB" /><ref name="Campbell" />
Hobart assumed several responsibilities in 1487. He was made [[Commission of array|commissioner of array]] for Norfolk in April. Hobart, and others, were appointed to oversee the fisheries on the east coast. He also supervised the repair of the harbour in [[Borough of Great Yarmouth|Yarmouth]].<ref name="DNB" /> He served on two commissions in 1489. One for [[gaol delivery]] for Ipswich and Norwich and the other for peace and [[oyer and terminer]] for Suffolk. Hobart was appointed to try a suit at York, when he is styled [[Serjeant-at-law|serjeant]], in August 1501. He was knighted on 18 February 1502–3 by Henry, prince of Wales.<ref name="DNB" />
Hobart left the attorney general office in 1507 following a controversy involving writs of ''[[praemunire]] facias''.<ref name="ODNB" />
==Personal life== Hobart was the youngest son of Thomas Hobart of Leyham in Norfolk.<ref name="DNB" /> Hobart married three times. John Lyhert's sister, Margery, was his first wife. The second was Dorothy Glemham.<ref name="ODNB" /> Margaret Naunton, the daughter of Peter Naunton of Letheringham, Suffolk, was his third wife. She died in 1494.<ref name="DNB" /> His daughter Catherine (by which wife is not known) married Thomas Curzon (d. after 1610) of [[Beck Hall]] Manor in Norfolk.<ref>''The Visitation of Norfolk 1563 & 1613'' edited by Walter Rye, London 1891, p.91.</ref>
Hobart lived at his home, [[Hales Hall]] in Norfolk.<ref name="DNB" /> He was a good friend of [[John Paston (died 1504)|John Paston]] and is often mentioned in the [[Paston Letters]].<ref name="DNB" />
Hobart's chest-tomb is located in the nave of the [[Norwich Cathedral]].<ref name="Atherton" />
==Death date== The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (1891) and other sources cite Hobart's death as in 1507,<ref name="Art UK" /><ref name="DNB" /> but Colin Richmond (2005) notes that his will was drawn up on 27 July 1516 and that he died in 1517.<ref name="Richmond" /> The confusion may be due to the statement from the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', which says: "He continued in his office until his death in 1507."<ref name="DNB" /> And, that there was a sudden resignation as attorney general by Hobart in 1507.<ref name="Chrimes" /><ref name="Dalton" /> But, Steven Gunn states that he resigned in 1507 and died ten years later,<ref name="Gunn" /> which synchs up with Richmond's mentioning of his 1516 will and 1517 death<ref name="Richmond" /> and others, like Gibson, who say that he died in 1517.<ref name="Gibson" /> Moreover, the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' provides the death as 24 February 1517.<ref name="ODNB" />
==Holy Trinity Church== [[Image:Loddon.jpg|thumb|left|[[Loddon, Norfolk#Holy Trinity Church|Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, Norfolk]]]]Hobart erected "at his sole expense" the [[Loddon, Norfolk#Holy Trinity Church|Holy Trinity Church]] at [[Loddon, Norfolk|Loddon]] in 1490.<ref name="Britton, Brayley" /> A stained glass artwork, removed from the east window of the church and preserved as a painting, shows Hobart and Lady Margaret Hobart in prayer.<ref name="Art UK" /> A caption in Latin beneath them reads, ''Orate pro aia Jaci Hobart, milit. & attornati dmi regis, qui Hanc ecclesiam a primis fundamentis condidit in tribus annis cum suis propriis bonis, anno regis Henrici septimit undecimo.'' Roughly, it translates as "Pray for James Hobart, soldier and attorney general to the King, who contributed to the foundations of the Church in the eleventh year of King Henry VII." {{clear}}
==References== <references>
*<ref name="Art UK">{{cite web | author=Art UK | url = http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-copy-of-the-east-window-in-loddon-church-with-the-kneeling-figures-of-sir-james-hobart-14361507-pc-mp-jp-and-his-third-wife-margaret-naunton-d-1494-lady-hobart-the-widow-of-john-dorward-171104 | title = A Copy of the East Window in Loddon Church, with the Kneeling Figures of Sir James Hobart (1436–1507), PC, MP, JP, and His Third Wife, Margaret Naunton (d.1494), Lady Hobart, the Widow of John Dorward | website = Art UK | publisher = Public Catalogue Foundation | access-date = 19 November 2016}}</ref> *<ref name="Atherton">{{cite book|last=Atherton|first=Ian|title=Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096–1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iw0XzrlUZJ8C&pg=PA479|year=1996|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-85285-134-7|page=479}}</ref> *<ref name="Britton, Brayley">{{cite book |last1= Britton |first1= John |last2= Brayley |first2= Edward Wedlake | year = 1810 | title = Topographical and Historical Description of Norfolk: Containing an Account of Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Churches, Monuments, Public Edifices, Picturesque Scenery, the Residences on Nobility, Gentry, Etc., Accompanied with Biographical Notices of Eminent and Learned Men to Whom this Country Has Given Birth | publisher = Sherwood, Neely, and Jones | location = London | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ky09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205 | pages = 205}}</ref> *<ref name="Campbell">{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=William|title=Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII: From Original Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUZB4NbszCMC&pg=PA356|date=15 November 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-04910-8|page=356}}</ref> *<ref name="Chrimes">{{cite book|last=Chrimes|first=S.B|title=Henry VII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5BQaCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR14+|date=11 July 1999|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-21294-5|page=14}}</ref> *<ref name="Dalton">{{cite book|last1=Dalton|first1=Hannah|last2=Fordham|first2=Michael|last3=Smith|first3=David|title=A/AS Level History for AQA The Tudors: England, 1485–1603 Student Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oxt-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|date=4 February 2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-50432-1|page=14}}</ref> *<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB |wstitle= Hobart, James |volume= 27 |last= Williams |first= James |author-link= |page= 31 |year=1891|short=1}}</ref> *<ref name="Gibson">{{cite book|last=Gibson|first=Gail McMurray|title=The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RnLg9UCV_0UC&pg=PA196+|date=January 1989|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-29102-4|page=196}}</ref> *<ref name="Gunn">{{cite book|last=Gunn|first=Steven|title=Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4LADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA286|date=9 June 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-965983-8|page=286}}</ref> *<ref name="Richmond">{{cite book |last1= Richmond |first1= Colin | year = 2005 | title = John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0hkh_WD01oC | pages = 190|isbn= 9780521020152 }}</ref> *<ref name="ODNB">{{cite book |last1= Ives |first1= E. W. | year = 2008 | title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13392 }}</ref>
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== Sources == * {{DNB |wstitle= Hobart, James |volume= 27 |last= Williams |first= James |author-link= |page= 31 |year=1891|short=}}
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