Thomas Hobson was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice.
1629 portrait of Thomas Hobson, from the National Portrait Gallery
The reerected Hobson's Conduit fountain head beside Lensfield Road
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A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one thing is actually offered. The term is often used to describe an illusion that choices are available. The best known example is "I'll give you a ch
Thomas Hobson (postal carrier)
…Thomas Hobson (c. 1544 – 1 January 1631) was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice. The term "Hobson's choice" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well…
1886 cover of Puck titled "Hobson's choice", by James Albert Wales, showing a gun-wielding personification of Oregon telling Chinese immigrants in the United States: "You can go, or stay."