The Ven. Reginald Hobhouse, MA (18 March 1818 – 27 January 1895), was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1878 to 1892. He was born on 18 March 1818 as the third son of Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary of state for the home department (Home Office) and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1841 and began his career as a curate at Bridport. After this he was Rector of Riseholme, Lincolnshire. In 1844 he became the incumbent at St Ive, Cornwall, where he was to remain until his death on 27 January 1895. Hobhouse was active in the campaign for a modern bishop of Cornwall and was the author of a pamphlet "The Cornish Bishopric" (1860)