biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1544–1631)
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| biography:
| Carrier and inn-keeper of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. For some 50 years he drove a stagecoach the 60 mi from Cambridge to London at breakneck speed. He kept a stable of horses to rent out to students at the university, and required each customer to take the horse nearest the stable door, whatever its quality; hence the expression ‘Hobson's choice’, meaning no choice at all. |
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