Philip Hoby
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Sir Philip Hoby PC was a 16th-century English Ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire and Flanders.
Sir Philip Hoby, Hans Holbein the Younger
The Lady Hobbei, Hans Holbein the Younger
Thomas Hoby
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Sir Thomas Hoby was an English diplomat and translator.
Philip Hoby
…born probably at Leominster, England, the son of William Hoby of Leominster by his first wife, Catherine Forster. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Thomas Hoby, father of Edward and Thomas Posthumous Hoby. Hoby became a diplomat, largely thanks to the support he gave to the Protestant Reformation during the…
Portrait of Hoby's wife Elizabeth, at Bisham Abbey.
Portrait of Hoby's eldest son, Edward, in 1583