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Authorised form of nameHare; Henry (1693 - 1749); 3rd Baron Coleraine
Dates1693 - 1749
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEast Betchworth, Surrey, England
Date of birth10 May 1693
Date of death10 August 1749
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Tottenham, Middlesex
Research fieldAntiquities
ActivityEducation:
School at Enfield under Dr Uvedale; Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1712)
Career:
Travelled to Italy three times where he amassed a considerable collection of prints and drawings of antiquities; MP for Boston (1730-1734)
Memberships:
FSA (1725); Grand Master of Freemasons (1727-1728); Repubblica Lettetaria di Arcadia; Spalding Society; Brasenose Society
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election08/01/1730
RelationshipsSon of Hugh Hare of East Betchworth, Surrey, and his wife, Lydia, daughter of Matthew Carlton, Merchant, of Edmonton, Middlesex; succeeded his grandfather, Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Hare (1708); married Anne, daughter of John Hanger, Merchant and sometime Governor of the Bank of England, of Trinity Minories, London, and his wife, Mary Coles, who left him (1720); having failed to persuade her to return he entered into 'a solemn mutual engagement to take each other for husband and wife' with Rose Duplessis, daughter of a French Protestant clergyman; his estates were left to the daughter of this union, but they escheated to the Crown as she was a foreigner, however they were later granted to her husband, James Townsend MP
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Foster; Sedgwick
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1749, p380
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane; Roger Gale; John Theophilus Desaguliers
CodeNA8068
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