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5 unusual facts about Richmond P. Hobson


Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy (1998-1999) was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia.

Richmond P. Hobson

A small town in south Texas was renamed from Castine to Hobson after he spoke there on a railroad tour.

The couple's son, Richmond P. "Rich" Hobson, Jr., became a rancher in Canada and wrote several popular memoirs of his time there.

In 1905, Hobson married Grizelda Houston Hull, cousin of U.S. Army general Joseph Wheeler, in Tuxedo Park, New York.

Richmond P. Hobson, Jr.

His books, Grass Beyond the Mountains, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy, and The Rancher Takes a Wife, inspired a CBC television program (Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy).


Albert F. Mummery

He became a friend of J. A. Hobson, and they collaborated on The Physiology of Industry (1889), which argued that because of economies' tendencies towards over-saving - and this being a cause of depressions – the economy required intervention to achieve stability.

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

He was married to Katie Adair, a niece of Kentucky Governor John Adair.

In 1887, he became president of the Southern Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

Edward Hobson

Edward H. Hobson (1825–1901), merchant, banker, politician and officer in the United States Army

Ernst Wigforss

He was inspired and stood ideologically close to the ideas of the Fabian Society and the Guild Socialism and inspired by people like R. H. Tawney, L.T. Hobhouse and J. A. Hobson.

Gillender Building

In M. K. Hobson's Hotel Astarte, The Warlock "had his fingernails polished by a mute Chinese woman he kept in locked in a small room in his office on the top floor of the Gillender Building on Wall Street".

Jesse E. Hobson

Hobson received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

John A. Hobson

V.I. Lenin, in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) - which was probably his most influential work on later Marxian scholarship - made use of Hobson's Imperialism extensively, remarking in the preface "I made use of the principal English work, Imperialism, J. A. Hobson's book, with all the care that, in my opinion, that work deserves."

Donald Markwell, John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press (2006).

John Hobson

John A. Hobson (1858–1940), English economist and imperial critic

Kenneth B. Hobson

After a year of being hospitalized, Hobson was assigned to the 22nd Bombardment Squadron in April 1940, and served at Hamilton Field, California, and Fort Douglas, Utah.

Lucien Sanial

Sanial would publish on the theme in 1901 in a seminal pamphlet entitled Territorial Expansion, anticipating the work of John A. Hobson (1902) and Vladimir Ul'yanov (Lenin) (1916).

Mark A. Lutz

He is a proponent of Humanistic economics, strongly influenced by political economy of Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi, the social economics of John Hobson, and various (heterodox) ideas of current thinkers, especially Herman Daly on environment, John Culbertson on trade, and David Ellerman on economic democracy.

Marshal Clarke

Clarke drew praise from the economist John A. Hobson in his treatise Imperialism for his devotion to the education and development of the native people of Basutoland, while Viscount Bryce noted that his approach fostered goodwill amongst native people towards Britain.

Open Christmas Letter

At least one of the signers was an American: Florence Edgar Hobson was the New York-born wife of English Liberal social theorist and economist John A. Hobson.


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