Born in 1571 to Arthur Dakins (or Dakyns) of Linton and his wife Thomasine Gye, Margaret Hoby was baptized on Feb. 10 of that year. Her parents' only child, Margaret was educated along with other young ladies of means in the household of Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
She married and was widowed twice before her marriage to Sir Thomas Hoby. Her first husband was Walter Devereux, the younger of the two adult sons of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. After the death of her first husband in 1591, Margaret retained their manor and property at Hackness. She then married Sir Thomas Sydney, younger brother of the famed Elizabethan poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney. Within a year of Sir Thomas' death (1595), Margaret married Sir Thomas Hoby (August 9, 1596). The Hobys made their home at Hackness.
Margaret Hoby is the earliest known woman diarist in the English language, with her diaries from 1599 to 1605 having survived to this day. They give remarkable insight into the activities and religious observances of an Elizabethan gentlewoman. Margaret and Thomas Hoby were childless.
She was buried in the chancel of Hackness' Church of St. Peter on Sept. 6, 1633. Her husband was interred beside her in 1640.
She married and was widowed twice before her marriage to Sir Thomas Hoby. Her first husband was Walter Devereux, the younger of the two adult sons of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. After the death of her first husband in 1591, Margaret retained their manor and property at Hackness. She then married Sir Thomas Sydney, younger brother of the famed Elizabethan poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney. Within a year of Sir Thomas' death (1595), Margaret married Sir Thomas Hoby (August 9, 1596). The Hobys made their home at Hackness.
Margaret Hoby is the earliest known woman diarist in the English language, with her diaries from 1599 to 1605 having survived to this day. They give remarkable insight into the activities and religious observances of an Elizabethan gentlewoman. Margaret and Thomas Hoby were childless.
She was buried in the chancel of Hackness' Church of St. Peter on Sept. 6, 1633. Her husband was interred beside her in 1640.
Born in 1571 to Arthur Dakins (or Dakyns) of Linton and his wife Thomasine Gye, Margaret Hoby was baptized on Feb. 10 of that year. Her parents' only child, Margaret was educated along with other young ladies of means in the household of Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
She married and was widowed twice before her marriage to Sir Thomas Hoby. Her first husband was Walter Devereux, the younger of the two adult sons of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. After the death of her first husband in 1591, Margaret retained their manor and property at Hackness. She then married Sir Thomas Sydney, younger brother of the famed Elizabethan poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney. Within a year of Sir Thomas' death (1595), Margaret married Sir Thomas Hoby (August 9, 1596). The Hobys made their home at Hackness.
Margaret Hoby is the earliest known woman diarist in the English language, with her diaries from 1599 to 1605 having survived to this day. They give remarkable insight into the activities and religious observances of an Elizabethan gentlewoman. Margaret and Thomas Hoby were childless.
She was buried in the chancel of Hackness' Church of St. Peter on Sept. 6, 1633. Her husband was interred beside her in 1640.
She married and was widowed twice before her marriage to Sir Thomas Hoby. Her first husband was Walter Devereux, the younger of the two adult sons of Sir Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. After the death of her first husband in 1591, Margaret retained their manor and property at Hackness. She then married Sir Thomas Sydney, younger brother of the famed Elizabethan poet and soldier Sir Philip Sidney. Within a year of Sir Thomas' death (1595), Margaret married Sir Thomas Hoby (August 9, 1596). The Hobys made their home at Hackness.
Margaret Hoby is the earliest known woman diarist in the English language, with her diaries from 1599 to 1605 having survived to this day. They give remarkable insight into the activities and religious observances of an Elizabethan gentlewoman. Margaret and Thomas Hoby were childless.
She was buried in the chancel of Hackness' Church of St. Peter on Sept. 6, 1633. Her husband was interred beside her in 1640.
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