Albinia Hobart

• Honorific Prefix — The Right Honourable • Name — The Countess of Buckinghamshire • Birth Name — Albinia Bertie • Born — 3 November 1738 • Died — 11 March 1816 • Place of death — Nocton, England • Known for — Extravagance • Children — * Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire • Hon. George Hobart • Lt. Charles Hobart • Rev. Hon. Henry Hobart • Lady Albinia Cumberland • Lady Henrietta Sullivan • Maria North, Countess of Guilford • Lady Charlotte Disbrowe • Parents — * Lord Vere Bertie • Anne Casey • Relatives — Edward Cromwell Disbrowe (grandson)

• Illustration — Albinia Bertie as a young girl, by Thomas Hudson Hobart was born Albinia Bertie to Lord Vere Bertie and Anne Casey. Her mother's father was Sir Cecil Wray, 11th Baronet; Anne Casey was illegitimate but her father's heiress, left in his will dated 21 January 1735/6 £14,000 and all his estates.

Albinia married The Hon. George Hobart in 1757, and so became Countess of Buckinghamshire when he inherited the title in 1793. The Hobarts lived in Hobart House, Ham Common, in Richmond, London, supposedly based on the Frederick the Great's summer palace, Sanssouci. There Albinia organised lavish parties which included performances by her and her daughters. These were attended by high society, including the royal princes. Together, they had eight children: • Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), who married Margaretta (Bourke) Adderley, widow of Thomas Adderley and daughter of Edmund Bourke in 1792. After her death in 1796, he married the Hon. Eleanor Eden, daughter of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, in 1799. • Hon. George Vere Hobart (1761–1802), who married first Jane Cataneo and had issue, married second, in April 1802, Janet Maclean and had issue • Lt. Charles Hobart of the Royal Navy. • Rev. Hon. Henry Lewis Hobart (1774–1846), who married Charlotte Selina Moore and had issue. • Lady Albinia Hobart (1759–1850), married Richard Cumberland in 1784 and had issue. • Lady Henrietta Anne Barbara Hobart (c. 1762–1828), who married, in 1789, John Sullivan and had issue. • Lady Maria Frances Hobart (c. 1762–1794), who married George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford and had issue. • Lady Charlotte Hobart (d. 1798), who married Col. Edward Disbrowe (d. 1818) and had issue, including Edward Cromwell Disbrowe. On her husband's death in 1804, she became the Dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire. She died on 11 March 1816 in Nocton, where she was buried with her husband.