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BART SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BART See also:SIR See also:RICHARD See also:COLT See also:HOARE  . (1758–1838), See also:English See also:antiquary, was the eldest son of See also:Richard See also:Hoare, who was created a See also:baronet in 1786, and was See also:born on the 9th of See also:December 1758 . He was descended from See also:Sir Richard Hoare (1648–1718), See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London, the founder of the See also:family banking business . An ample See also:allowance from his grandfather, See also:Henry Hoare, enabled him to pursue the archaeological studies for which he had already shown an inclination . In 1783 he married Hester, daughter of See also:William Henry, Lord See also:Lyttelton, and after her See also:death in 1785 he paid a prolonged visit to See also:France, See also:Italy and Switzer-See also:land . He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1787, and in 1788 made a second See also:continental tour, the See also:record of his travels appearing in 1819 under the See also:title A Classical Tour through Italy and See also:Sicily . A See also:journey through See also:Wales was followed by a See also:translation of the See also:Itinerarium Cambriae and of the Descriptio Cambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis, Hoare adding notes and a See also:life of Giraldus to the translation . This was first published in 1804, and has been revised by T . See also:Wright (London, 1863) . Sir Richard died at Stourhead, See also:Wiltshire, on the 19th of May 1838, being succeeded in the baronetcy by his See also:half-See also:brother, Henry See also:Hugh Hoare . Hoare's most important See also:work was his See also:Ancient See also:History of See also:North and See also:South Wiltshire (1812–1819); he also did some work on the large History of See also:Modern liltshire (1822–1844) . For notices of him and a See also:list of his See also:works, many of which were printed privately, see the See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine for See also:July 1838, and the See also:Diet .

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

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