Edward Brodie Hoare (30 October 1841 – 12 August 1911) was a

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banker and

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politician. Born in

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, Surrey, he was the eldest son of the Reverend Edward Hoare, Honorary Canon of

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and vicar of Holy Trinity,

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, and his wife Maria, daughter of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Baronet. Educated at

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and

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, he graduated with a BA degree in 1864 and MA in 1868. He married Katharine Parry, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir

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in 1868. He pursued a long career in banking, initially as a partner in the family firm of Barnett, Hoare and Company. He was subsequently a director of

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, chairman of the Colonial Bank, and a director of the Standard Bank of South Africa. Active in Unionist politics, he unsuccessfully contested Sheffield Attercliffe at the 1886 general election and Bradford Central at a byelection in 1886 before being elected Conservative

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for Hampstead in a by-election in 1888. He remained Hampstead's MP until 9 January 1902, when he resigned due to ill-health and was ceremonially appointed

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. In August 1911 Hoare was killed aged 69 when the motor car in which he was travelling was involved in an accident near

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoare, Edward Brodie 1841 births 1911 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People educated at Tonbridge School British bankers People from Richmond, London Road incident deaths in England 19th-century British businesspeople