Richard Hoare (banker)
Sir Richard Hoare (1648 – 6 January 1719)[1] was the founder of C. Hoare & Co, the oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom.
Business career
Raised near
Political career
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Contesting the mayoral election of September 1710 he unsuccessfully challenged the Whig leader (Sir) Gilbert Heathcote but was appointed Sheriff of London instead and was elected to Parliament in the same year, finishing second in the poll.[5] He finally became Lord Mayor of London in September 1712[6] having also contested the election in 1711.[4] The City election of 1713 saw Hoare returned to Parliament having again finished second[5] but he did not stand in 1715. He subsequently withdrew from public life in 1718 due to ill-health.[4] Hoare died at Hendon on 6 January 1719.[7]
A monument to his memory stands in the church of St Dunstan-in-the-West and was designed and created by Thomas Stayner.[8]
Family
Hoare married Susanna Austen; they had 17 children (one of whom was Henry Hoare I).[9]
References
- ^ a b Victoria Hutchings, "Hoare, Sir Richard (1648–1719)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 12 November 2014.
- ^ Hutchings, V. (2000), p. 8.
- ^ a b Hutchings, V. (2000), p. 10.
- ^ a b c d "HOARE, Sir Richard (1649-1719), of Fleet Street, London, and Hendon, Mdx". History of Parliament. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ^ a b c d "London | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ Hutchings, V. (2000), p. 29.
- ^ Hutchings, V. (2000), p. 30.
- ^ Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis, p. 369
- ^ Hutchings, V. (2000), p. 230.
Further reading
- Hoare, Henry Peregrine Rennie (1955) [1932]. Hoare's Bank: A Record 1672–1955.
- Hutchings, Victoria (2005). Messrs Hoare, Bankers: A History of the Hoare Banking Dynasty. London: Constable. ISBN 1841199656.