BART

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• SIR

SIR

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• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

RICHARD

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• COLT, SAMUEL (1814-1862)

COLT

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• BART SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE

HOARE  . (1758–1838), English antiquary, was the eldest son of Richard Hoare, who was created a baronet in 1786, and was born on the 9th of December 1758 . He was descended from Sir Richard Hoare (1648–1718), lord mayor of London, the founder of the family banking business . An ample allowance from his grandfather, Henry Hoare, enabled him to pursue the archaeological studies for which he had already shown an inclination . In 1783 he married Hester, daughter of William Henry, Lord Lyttelton, and after her death in 1785 he paid a prolonged visit to France, Italy and Switzer-land . He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1787, and in 1788 made a second continental tour, the record of his travels appearing in 1819 under the title A Classical Tour through Italy and Sicily . A journey through Wales was followed by a translation of the Itinerarium Cambriae and of the Descriptio Cambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis, Hoare adding notes and a life of Giraldus to the translation . This was first published in 1804, and has been revised by T . Wright (London, 1863) . Sir Richard died at Stourhead, Wiltshire, on the 19th of May 1838, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his half-brother, Henry Hugh Hoare . Hoare's most important work was his Ancient History of North and South Wiltshire (1812–1819); he also did some work on the large History of Modern liltshire (1822–1844) . For notices of him and a list of his works, many of which were printed privately, see the Gentleman's Magazine for July 1838, and the Diet .

Nat . Biog. vol.

xxvii . (1891) . See also E . Hoare, History of the Hoare Family (1883) .