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Of [[location::Hackness, Yorkshire]], daughter of [[family::Arthur Dakins]] (b.c.[[date of birth::1517]]-d.[[date of death::1592]]), gentleman and [[occupation::JP]] of [[location::Linton]] and his wife, [[family::Thomasine Gye]] (d.[[date of death::1613]]). Educated in the household of [[associates::Henry Hastings]], third [[personal title::earl of Huntingdon]]. She married thrice: first to [[associates::Walter]] (b.[[date of birth::1569]]), son of [[crossreference::Walter Devereux]], secondly to [[associates::Thomas Sidney]], brother of the [[occupation::poet]] [[associates::Sir Philip Sidney]], and after his death in [[date of death::1595]] to [[family::Sir Thomas Hoby]] ([[date of birth::1566]]-[[date of death::1644]]). Hoby is known as the [[author::author]] of the earliest known diary of an Englishwoman, written between 1599 and 1605.
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Of [[location::Hackness, Yorkshire]], daughter of [[family::Arthur Dakins]] (b.c.[[date of birth::1517]]-d.[[date of death::1592]]), gentleman and [[occupation::JP]] of [[location::Linton]] and his wife, [[family::Thomasine Gye]] (d.[[date of death::1613]]). Educated in the household of [[associates::Henry Hastings]], third [[personal title::earl of Huntingdon]]. She married thrice: first to [[associates::Walter]] (b.[[date of birth::1569]]), son of [[associates::Walter Devereux]], secondly to [[associates::Thomas Sidney]], brother of the [[occupation::poet]] [[associates::Sir Philip Sidney]], and after his death in [[date of death::1595]] to [[family::Sir Thomas Hoby]] ([[date of birth::1566]]-[[date of death::1644]]). Hoby is known as the [[author::author]] of the earliest known diary of an Englishwoman, written between 1599 and 1605.
  
 
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Margaret HOBY, Lady HOBY 1571-1633

Biographical Note

Of Hackness, Yorkshire, daughter of Arthur Dakins (b.c.1517-d.1592), gentleman and JP of Linton and his wife, Thomasine Gye (d.1613). Educated in the household of Henry Hastings, third earl of Huntingdon. She married thrice: first to Walter (b.1569), son of Walter Devereux, secondly to Thomas Sidney, brother of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, and after his death in 1595 to Sir Thomas Hoby (1566-1644). Hoby is known as the author of the earliest known diary of an Englishwoman, written between 1599 and 1605.

Books

Her diary contains extensive references to reading in her closet; some of her books, with her annotations, survive in Hackness parish library (now in York Minster Library).

Sources