Charles Arthur Richard Hoare (18 May 1847 – 22 May 1908) was an English banker who became a senior partner in the private bank C. Hoare & Co. He was a keen amateur

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er who played one

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match for Kent County Cricket Club.

Career

Hoare was born in

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in 1847;Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 258–260.
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. Retrieved 7 August 2022.) he was the son of Peter Richard Hoare, the younger and Lady Sophia Marsham (daughter of

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). Hoare received no formal education on account of his lameness. He played cricket extensively in non-first-class matches of teams such as MCC, having become a member of the club at the age of 18 in 1865, and made his only

appearance in 1872 for Kent County Cricket Club in a twelve-a-side match against the MCC.Capt. Charles Arthur Richard Hoare
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'', 1909. Retrieved 11 November 2017. Following his father's death, in 1877, Hoare became Senior Partner of the banking firm C. Hoare & Co and owner of

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. He also became Master of the

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Hunt and was President of Hampshire County Cricket Club for three years. In the late 1870s he began a relationship with Beatrice Holme Sumner, who at that time was a minor; the affair became public knowledge in 1885, when members of Sumner's family sought a court order restricting Hoare from continuing the relationship and demanding his committal to prison.Robson D (1999
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CricInfo, 20 September 1999. Retrieved 11 November 2017. The judge rejected the application to imprison Hoare. In 1885 Hoare founded TS ''Mercury'' at

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on the Isle of Wight as a charitable venture formed with the objective of rescuing poor boys of good character and training them for naval service. After a sustained period of absence from the Bank, on account of his pursuit of his cricket, hunting and personal interests, Hoare was dismissed as Senior Partner of the Bank in 1888. The entire TS Mercury establishment, with Hoare as its superintendent, moved from Binstead to

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near

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in 1892. In June 1898, following Beatrice Holme-Sumner's marriage to the cricketer,

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, Hoare retired to Hall Place,

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where he died in May 1908 aged 61 after a long illness.

Family

In 1867 Hoare married Margaret Short; they had four sons and one daughter. He also had a son ( Robin Hoare) and a daughter by his relationship with Beatrice Holme Sumner.Morris, p. 37

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoare, Charles 1847 births 1908 deaths English bankers English cricketers Kent cricketers 19th-century English businesspeople