Isaac Hobhouse

Major Bristol slave-trader, with 68 recorded voyages in the TASTDB between 1722 and 1747. He left £2000 in trust for the children of his nephew John (Benjamin and Isaac) and £3000 for the children of his nephew Henry the elder (Henry the younger, Jane and Thomas). After philanthropic donations in Bristol of several hundred pounds, he left the rest of his estate to his nephews Thomas Jones, Henry Hobhouse the elder and John Hobhouse. Henry (1714-1773) and John (1712-1787) Hobhouse appear to have been partners or shareholders in Isaac Hobhouse & Co., but do not appear in the TASTDB. Descendants of the two nephews have a dozen entries in the ODNB, none of which mentions the slave-trading origins of a portion of the family's wealth.

PROB 11/886/371; David Richardson (ed.), Bristol, Africa and the Slave Trade to Eighteenth Century America Vol. I (1986) pp. viii-ix.