Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (September 8, 1864 - June 21, 1929) was a British liberal politician, one of the theorists of social liberalism. He worked as an academic and a journalist: he was the first professor of sociology appointed in a British university. He was born in St Ive, near Liskeard in Cornwall.[1] His sister Emily Hobhouse was a noted welfare campaigner.
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