Sir Henry Hoare, 5th Baronet
Hoare as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1883
Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th baronet DL (14 April 1824 – 7 July 1894) [1] was an English banker and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1874.
Hoare was the son of Henry Charles Hoare, and his wife Anne Penelope Ainslie, daughter of General George Ainslie. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge before entering the family bank Messrs Hoare and Co.[2] He succeeded his uncle in the baronetcy in 1857 and moved to Stourhead. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset and Wiltshire.[3]
In 1865 Hoare was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor but was unseated in 1866.[4] At the 1868 general election he was elected MP for Chelsea. He held the seat until 1874.[5]
Hoare had a restless temperament and expensive tastes including hunting and horse racing which left him short of money. In 1883, during the agricultural depression, he had to sell at auction many of Stourhead’s treasures including Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s collection of books on British history and a series of watercolour paintings by Turner.[6]
Hoare left Stourhead and lived in France in his later years where he fell ill in 1894. He returned to London and died at the age of 70 at 12, West Eaton Place, Pimlico and was buried at Stourton.
Hoare married Augusta Frances Clayton East, daughter of Sir E G Clayton East, in 1845. Their only son died in childhood, and the baronetcy passed to a cousin.[2]
References
- ↑ Knight, John Prescott. "Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare (1824–1894), 5th Bt". BBC Your Paintings.
- 1 2 "Hoare, Henry Ainslie (HR840HA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)
- ↑ National Trust - The Hoare Family
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Hoare
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by William Vansittart Richard Vyse |
Member of Parliament for Windsor 1865 – 1866 With: Henry Labouchère |
Succeeded by Charles Edwards Roger Eykyn |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Chelsea 1865 – 1874 With: Sir Charles Dilke |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Dilke William Gordon |