Hobbes, R. G. (Robert George), 1821?-1899

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Hobbes, R. G. (Robert George), 1821?-1899

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        1821?-1899

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        Robert George Hobbes was born around 1821 in Bath, Somerset, England.
        He was a civil servant, accountant (M.B.A.), and author. He spent forty years first as a clerk and later a Principal Officer of H.M.'s Dockyard at Sheerness and Chatham where he witnessed transformation and revision of Dockyard organization. He worked in the several departments of Cash, Naval Stores, and Accounts. He was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He published sketches of his holiday travels and his work experiences "Reminiscences and Notes of Seventy Years' Life, Travel, and Adventure; Military and Civil; Scientific and Literary" (2 vols., 1895).
        In 1844, he married Jane Cartland (1817–1894). He died in March 1899, in London, Surrey, England.

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