Hobley biography

CW Hobley was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya.
Charles William Hobley, CMG — known as C. W. Hobley — was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya.
Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley.

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actor and television presenter, was born in Stanley on 9 June 1917. His birth certificate gives his name as above, although he was christened Denys Jack Valentine McDonald Hobley. He was the second child of the Rev Charles McDonald HOBLEY and his wife Gladys, née Blanchard, having an elder sister Betty Louise. His father was assistant chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral, Stanley between 1912 and 1918 when they left for Chile where the family stayed until 1928. Moving to Burgess Hill in Sussex, he attended Brighton College between 1931 and 1936. He began his acting career in repertory, acting under the name of Robert Blanchard, and toured before World War II in Priestley's Time and the Conways. During the war he joined the Royal Artillery and was involved in a bizarre plot, ultimately abandoned, to abduct Hitler and fly him to Britain - Hobley was among those briefed to seize the plane when it landed. He spent the last months of the war working for a forces radio station in Ceylon {Sri Lanka} which proved a turning point in his career.

In 1946, having changed his stage name to

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McDonald Hobley

British TV broadcaster and actor (1917–1987)

Dennys Jack Valentine McDonald-Hobley (9 June 1917 – 30 July 1987) was a British actor of stage and screen, radio and television broadcaster and compère, who was one of the earliest BBC Televisioncontinuity announcers, appearing on screen from 1946 to 1956. Born in Stanley in the Falkland Islands and educated at Brighton College, England, he decided to become an actor and began his career as a character actor in repertory theatre. The Second World War saw Hobley serve as a gunner in the Royal Artillery and become a captain in the South East Asia Command. He was seconded by Lord Mountbatten to the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Ceylon.

After he was demobbed in 1946, Hobley was entered into a competition for announcers of the BBC Television service and was successful. He announced, commentated on sport, compèred panel games, provided film commentary and conducted interviews on chat shows. Holbey resigned from the BBC in 1956 to join ABC Weekend TV as an announcer until he left the ITV franchise three year

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HOBLEY, WILLIAM (1858 - 1933), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author

Name: William Hobley
Date of birth: 1858
Date of death: 1933
Parent: Ann Mary Hobley
Parent: William Hobley
Gender: Male
Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Religion
Author: Edward Morgan Humphreys

Born at Gelli Ffrydau, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire, October 1858, son of William and Ann Mary Hobley. He was at two private schools in Caernarvon, kept by John Evans and by J. H. Bransby, and at fifteen entered Aberystwyth University College, where he remained for four years; he did not graduate. From Aberystwyth he went to the Bala Theological College; he was ordained in 1882 and became pastor at Buckley, Flintshire, in the same year. He was at Buckley, his only pastoral charge, for eleven years. When he resigned his charge he went to live to Caernarvon and there, or in that district, he lived for the rest of his life, devoting his time to preaching and study, in particular the study of the Christian mystics. He accumulated a co