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Hobbs and his wife lived in rented property for the first years of their marriage.

His earnings placed them roughly in the bracket of lower middle class according to McKinstry: although not as poor as he had been during his childhood, the family were not initially financially comfortable.

Hobbs wages increased with his reputation so that by 1913, he was earning £ 375 each year, placing his family within the bracket of the London middle class.

After several years of moving from one property to another, Hobbs was able to buy his own house in 1913, in a prosperous area of London.

At the height of his fame in the mid-1920s, Hobbs earnings from cricket and other sources probably reached £ 1, 500 a year.

Consequently, in 1928 the family moved to a large house in private grounds and Hobbs was able to send his children to private school.