Hobhouse, John Cam, Baron Broughton (1786–1869)

British statesman. He began his political career in 1820 as Radical member of Parliament for Westminster, having been already imprisoned in Newgate for a satirical pamphlet published anonymously. Hobhouse is traditionally said to have been the first to use the phrase ‘His (Her) Majesty's Opposition’. He was made a peer in 1851.

He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge University. His friendship with the English poet George Byron began in his undergraduate days and endured until the latter's death.