Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine
FRS;
FSA (10 May 1693 – 1 August 1749) was an English antiquary, peer politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1730 to 1734.
Life
Born in
Betchworth
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,
Surrey, 10 May 1693, he was the eldest son of the Hon.
Hugh Hare
The Honourable Hugh Hare (1668–1707) was an English translator and politician.
Life
He was baptised at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, 2 July 1668, the eldest surviving son of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, by his first wife, Constantia, d ...
, by his wife Lydia, daughter of Matthew Carlton of
Edmonton, Middlesex
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. He was educated at
Enfield
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under
Robert Uvedale
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Life
Son of Robert Uvedale of Westmins ...
. On the death of his grandfather,
Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, in 1708, he succeeded to the title as
Baron Coleraine
Baron Coleraine is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1625 for the courtier Hugh Hare. This creation beca ...
. He matriculated at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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on 2 February 1712, aged 17.
He was under the tuition of
John Rogers, who in 1716 married his sister Lydia.
Coleraine visited Italy three times; the second time, about 1723, in company with
Conyers Middleton
Conyers Middleton (27 December 1683 – 28 July 1750) was an English clergyman. Mired in controversy and disputes, he was also considered one of the best stylists in English of his time.
Early life
Middleton was born at Richmond, North Yorkshir ...
, when he made a collection of prints and drawings of the antiquities, buildings, and pictures in Italy, given after his death to Corpus Christi College. He was a member of the Republica Letteraria di Arcadia, and a friend of the Marquis
Scipio Maffei, who renewed their friendship at Coleraine's country seat,
Bruce Castle
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,
Tottenham
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.
Coleraine was elected
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
, 8 December 1725, and frequently acted as vice-president. On 18 May 1727 he became a member of the
Gentleman's Society at Spalding,
Lincolnshire
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, and was also a member of the Brasenose Society. In the following year he was Grand Master of
Freemasons. He was chosen
Fellow of the Royal Society
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on 8 January 1730.
Coleraine was elected as a Tory
Member of Parliament
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for
Boston
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,
Lincolnshire
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, in a contested by-election on 22 January 1730. He voted against the Administration on the army in 1732 and on the
Excise Bill
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in 1733. He spoke against the Address on 17 January 1734, and in March against authorizing the King to increase his forces if an emergency occurred during the parliamentary recess. He did not stand at the
1734 general election.
Coleraine was a patron of
George Vertue
George Vertue (1684 – 24 July 1756) was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
Life
Vertue was born in 1684 in St Martin-in-the-Fields, ...
, and took him antiquarian tours in England to make drawing. He died in August 1749, and was buried at Tottenham.
Works
A copy of Latin
alcaics from his pen was printed in the ''Academiæ Oxoniensis Comitia Philologica in honorem Annæ Pacificæ'', 1713, and in the ''Musæ Anglicanæ'', iii. 303, under the title of ''Musarum Oblatio''.
Basil Kennett, who in 1714 succeeded
Thomas Turner in the presidency of Corpus, inscribed to Coleraine an epistolary poem on his predecessor's death.
Legacy
Coleraine bequeathed, with certain reservations; his drawings and prints of antiquities and buildings in Great Britain to the Society of Antiquaries; but the
codicil being declared void, and the society not caring for a chancery suit for their recovery, Rose Duplessis (see below), at the persuasion of Coleraine's friend
Henry Baker, presented them to the society, and afterwards a portrait of Coleraine when young by Richardson, with other minor bequests.
His library was purchased in 1754 by Thomas Osborne, the bookseller, who took many private papers and deeds lodged in presses behind the bookcases. Among them was the second Lord Coleraine's manuscript history of Tottenham. The pictures and antiques were sold by auction on 13 and 14 March 1754.
Family
Coleraine married, 20 January 1718, Anne, eldest daughter of
John Hanger
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Hanger has served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...
,
Governor of the Bank of England
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1719–1721, grandson of
Sir Lewis Roberts, who brought him a dowry of nearly £100,000. The couple lived together until October 1720, when Lady Coleraine left her husband; there were no children.
Coleraine, finding a reconciliation impossible, formed on 29 April 1740 a "solemn engagement" with Rose Duplessis (1710–1790), daughter of François Duplessis, a French clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Henrietta Rosa Peregrina, born at
Crema, Lombardy
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in Italy 12 September 1745. Having had no issue by his wife, Coleraine bequeathed his Tottenham estates to this illegitimate daughter; but she being an alien they
escheat
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ed to the crown. A grant of them was later obtained for
James Townsend, whom she married on 2 May 1763.
Lady Coleraine survived until 10 January 1754, and asked to be buried at
Bray, Berkshire
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.
Gabriel
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, third son of her uncle Sir George Hanger, was, in 1762, created
Baron Coleraine
Baron Coleraine is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland in 1625 for the courtier Hugh Hare. This creation beca ...
.
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1693 births
1749 deaths
English antiquarians
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
People from Betchworth
Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England
Grand Masters of the Premier Grand Lodge of England