Charles Hoare (25 August 1767 – 16 November 1851) was Senior Partner of the banking firm of C. Hoare & Co.

Career

He was born the son of

Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of ...

and Frances Anne Ackland. He was the younger brother of

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 count ...

. He became a Partner in the banking firm C. Hoare & Co in 1787. In 1800 he commissioned John Nash to design

Luscombe Castle Luscombe Castle is a country house situated near the resort town of Dawlish, in the county of Devon in England. Upon purchasing the land at Luscombe in 1797, Charles Hoare (banker), Charles Hoare demolished the existing house and commissioned a ...

near

Dawlish Dawlish is a seaside resort town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Teignbridge district in Devon, England. It is located on the south coast of England at a distance of from the city of Exeter and a similar distance from the to ...

, Devon for him as a rural retreat. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 1809. Hoare initiated the construction of a new banking hall for the bank in 1829.Hutchings, p. 116 He later became its senior partner. He died at Dawlish in 1851 and, although the bank was not founded by Charles Hoare, it continues to bear his name.

Family

In 1790 Hoare married Frances Dorothea Robinson, the daughter of

Sir George Robinson, 5th Baronet Sir George Robinson, 5th Baronet (1730–1815) was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1780. Robinson was the son of Sir John Robinson, 4th Baronet of Cranford and his wife Mary Morgan, daughter of John ...

; they had no male issue.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoare, Charles 1767 births 1851 deaths English bankers Fellows of the Royal Society