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Hoare Family
Hoare is an English surname derived from Middle English '' hor(e)'' meaning grey- or white-haired. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Alfred Hoare, known as Bert Hoare (1874–1962), South Australian politician * Bertie Hoare (1912–1947), World War II flying ace * Des Hoare (born 1934), Australian cricketer * Desmond Hoare (Royal Navy officer) (1910–1988), British sailor and educator * Edward Hoare (other), several people * Elizabeth Hoare (1915–2001), English church furnisher and actress * Henry Hoare (banker) (1677–1725), English banker and land-owner * Henry Hoare (1705–1785), English banker and garden owner-designer * James Hoare (born 1943), British academic and historian * Joe Hoare (1881–1947), English footballer * John Gurney Hoare (1810–1875), English cricketer and banker * Kelly Hoare (born 1963), Australian politician * Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784–1836), English diarist and writer * Mad Mike Hoare (1919–2020), Irish mercen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Name
English names are personal names used in, or originating in, England. In England, as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of one or more given names, commonly referred to as first names, and a (most commonly patrilineality, patrilineal, rarely matrilineality, matrilineal) surname, family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. The given names after the first are often referred to as middle names. Given names Few given names used in England have English derivations. Many names are of Hebrew (Daniel (given name), Daniel, David (name), David, Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth, Susan) or Greek name, Greek (Nicholas, Dorothy (given name), Dorothy, George (given name), George, and Helen (given name), Helen) origin. Some are Germanic names, sometimes adopted via the transmission of French language, French (Robert, Richard, Gertrude (given name), Gertrude, Charlotte (given name), Charlotte) or originate from Indo-European (Adrian, Amelia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gurney Hoare
John Gurney Hoare (7 May 1810 – 16 February 1875) was an English cricketer with amateur status, and later a banker. Biography Hoare was born in Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly in the London Borough of Camden, with a small part in the London Borough of Barnet. It borders Highgate and Golders Green to the north, Belsiz ..., London, to Samuel Hoare (1783–1847), a partner in Bland, Barnett & Hoare, bankers (which after mergers and name changes was eventually taken over by Lloyds Bank), and his wife Louisa Gurney Hoare, Louisa, the daughter of John Gurney (1749–1809), John Gurney. He was the grandson of the Quaker banker Samuel Hoare Jr, Samuel Hoare, one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as 20th Wrangler (University of Cambridge), Wrangler. He became a partner in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. He was ambitious and his expedience and flexibility gave him a reputation for being unprincipled and two-faced, being nicknamed "Slippery Sam" or "Soapy Sam". Hoare was Secretary of State for Air during most of the 1920s. As Secretary of State for India in the early 1930s, he authored the Government of India Act 1935, which granted self-government at a provincial level to India. He was most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary in 1935, when he authored the Hoare–Laval Pact with French Prime Minister Pierre Laval. This partially recognised the Italian conquest of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia) and Hoare was forced to resign by the ensuing public outcry. In 1936 he returned to the Cabinet as Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet (7 September 1841 – 20 January 1915), was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1886 to 1906. Family Hoare was the eldest son of John Gurney Hoare (1810–1875) and Caroline Barclay (d. 1878) and a grandson of the diarist Louisa Gurney. His great-grandfathers included the Quaker bankers John Gurney and Samuel Hoare. In 1866, he married Katherine Louisa Hart Davis (1846–1931), with whom he had seven children. Education and career Hoare was educated at Bayfield Preparatory School, Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he played cricket in the University trials; he also played for Quidnuncs. He undertook two tours of the Mediterranean and Middle East between 1862 and 1865. At the 1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested North Norfolk. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich at a by-election in April 1886, and retained the seat until he stood down at the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county of Wiltshire. Career and personal life Hoare was born in Barnes, Surrey, and was descended from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of London, the founder of the family banking business, Hoare's Bank. His parents were Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet (1735–1787) and Anne Hoare (1737–1759). He was educated at preparatory school at Mr. Devis's school, Wandsworth, and afterwards at Samuel Glasse's school at Greenford, and was taught the Classics by the Rev. Joseph Eyre. In 1783 Hoare married Hester, daughter of William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton. In 1785 he inherited the large Stourhead estate in Wiltshire from his grandfather, Henry Hoare II, which enabled him to pursue his interests including the archaeological studies for which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hoare (banker)
Sir Richard Hoare (1648 – 6 January 1719)Victoria Hutchings"Hoare, Sir Richard (1648–1719)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 12 November 2014. was the English founder of C. Hoare & Co, the oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom. Business career Raised near Smithfield Market in London, only son of Horse trading, horse-dealer Henry Hoare (died 1699) and Cicely (died 1679), Richard Hoare began his working life apprenticed to the goldsmith Richard MooreHutchings, V. (2000), p. 10. from 9 June 1665 for seven years. He was granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths on 5 July 1672. This date marks the foundation of C. Hoare & Co as a goldsmith's business at the sign of the Golden Bottle in Cheapside, London. Political career Hoare, a Tory, stood for election as Sheriff of London in June 1702 but was unsuccessful. He was knighted by Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Queen Anne in October 1702. He attained the offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Hoare (younger)
Prince Hoare (1755 – 22 December 1834) was an English painter, art critic, dramatist and librettist. ('Prince' is a given name, not a royal title.) Among many interventions in Britain's art scene around 1800, Hoare was active in the Royal Academy as its Secretary for Foreign Correspondence. Life Prince Hoare was born in Bath, the son of painter William Hoare and his wife. He was named 'Prince' after his father's brother, a sculptor. He studied art from an early age, and became well known as a painter of portraits and historical scenes. His sister Mary Hoare was also a noted painter. He also became a leading facilitator of art criticism and controversy, beginning with ''Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England'' (1806). Later in his life, Hoare wrote 20 plays. He also compiled the ''Memoirs of Granville Sharp'' (1820), based on the British abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Hoare (elder)
Prince Hoare ( – 5 November 1769) was an English sculptor. "Prince" in this instance was a given name, not a royal title. Life Possibly born near Eye, Suffolk, brother of William Hoare RA, he trained under Peter Scheemakers in London. He subsequently settled in Bath with his brother but spent much of the 1740s in Italy. He returned to Bath in 1749 and remained active as a sculptor. On 26 May 1751 he married Mary Coulthurst (1716–1751) daughter of the clothier Henry Coulthurst of Melksham with a dowry of £6,000. Despite his new found wealth he continued as a sculptor. He died in Bath on 8 November 1769.Newby (2006) Family In May 1751 he married Miss Mary Colthurst of the Colthurst baronets of Melksham and received a dowry of £6000 (the equivalent of £1 million in 2020).Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.204 Works *Monument to Jacob Selfe at Melksham (1730) *Memorial to Bishop Isaac Maddox in Worcester Cathedral (1743) *Monument to Mary Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hoare (other) :
** Sir Peter William Hoare, 7th Baronet (1898–1973)
** Sir Peter Richard David Hoare, 8th Baronet (1932–2004)
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Peter Hoare or Hore may refer to: * Peter Hore (prankster), Australian prankster * Peter Hoare (tenor), British singer * Peter Hore (historian) (born 1944), British historian * Peter Hore (chemist), British chemist and academic * Peter Merrick Hoare (1843–1894), English politician * Two of the Hoare baronets There have been four baronetcies created for people with the surname Hoare, one in the Baronetage of Ireland, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The second holder of the third creation was rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hoare, Lady Hoare
Lady Nora (Mary) Hoare (; – 21 September 1973) was the Lady Mayoress Lady mayoress is an official female companion to the lord mayor of a major city in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, or a capital city of an Australian state. Traditionally this was the wife of a male mayor. It is not an elected offic ... of London and advocate for thalidomide-affected babies and children. She founded a charity for thalidomide-affected children, the Lady Hoare Trust, which she managed from her home. The trust organised home visits and research into artificial limbs in order to encourage independent living at home and integration in mainstream schools. She was awarded an OBE in 1972. She died of cancer one year later. At the time of her death, the trust cared for approximately 900 children. References External links Lady Hoare and the thalidomide storyFamilies fighting for justice {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoare, Nora 1910s births 1973 deaths Officers of the Order of the British Empi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hoare
Mary Hoare (1744–1820) was an English painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with .... She was William Hoare's daughter and Prince Hoare's sister. The latter had a strong influence on her.Hammerschmidt-Hummel, Hildegard, ed. Die Shakespeare-Illustration (1594–2000): Bildkünstlerische Darstellungen zu den Dramen William Shakespeares: Katalog, Geschichte, Funktion und Deutung. Vol. 3, Katalog: Abbildungen 1494–3000, edited by Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, p. 249. Life and career There is little known about Mary Hoare's life. In 1765 she married Henry Hoare (1744–1785). Between 1761 and 1764 she displayed works at the Society of Artists of Great Britain and at the Free Society of Artists. Works by Hoare Most of her k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marko Attila Hoare
Marko Attila Hoare (born 1972) is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. Early life and education Hoare is the son of the British translator Quintin Hoare and the Croatian journalist and historian Branka Magaš. Hoare has been studying the history of the former Yugoslavia since 1993. In the summer of 1995, he acted as translator for the humanitarian aid convoy to the Bosnian town of Tuzla, organised by Workers' Aid for Bosnia, a movement of solidarity in support of the Bosnian people. His degrees in History are a BA (1994; later converted to an MA) from the University of Cambridge and a MPhil (1997) and PhD from Yale University (2000). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
