Well known Manchester musicologist who was President and Founder of the Manchester Banksian Society. He is recorded to have paid some attention to entomology in the period 1825 - 1827 and the beetle Chrysomela hobsoni was named after him by J.F.Stephens. A reference to him in Stephens (1829), p.189, suggests that he may have been a friend of Rev. F.W.Hope. (MD 5/03)
Dates
1782 - September 1830