Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine (1606 – 19 October 1667), was an English courtier.
Life
Hare had inherited a large amount of money from his great-uncle
Sir Nicholas Hare,
Master of the Rolls. On the death of his father, his mother had remarried
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, allowing the young Hare to rise rapidly in
Court
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and social circles. He married Montagu's daughter by his first marriage and purchased the manor of Tottenham, including the Lordship House, in 1625, and was raised to the
Irish peerage
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as
Baron Coleraine shortly thereafter.
[Pegram 1987, p. 5]
As he was closely associated with the court of
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
, Coleraine's fortunes went into decline during the
English Civil War
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. His
castle at Longford and his house in
Totteridge
Totteridge is a residential area and former village in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a mixture of suburban development and open land (including some farmland) situated 8 miles (13 km) north north-west of Charing Cross. It ...
were seized by Parliamentary forces, and returned upon the
Restoration
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** Textile restoration
* Restoration ecology
...
in a severe state of disrepair. Records of Tottenham from the period are now lost, and the ownership and condition of the Lordship House during the
Commonwealth of England
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are unknown.
Lord Coleraine died at his home in Totteridge in 1667, having choked to death on a bone eating
turkey
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whilst laughing and drinking.
Family
He married, in 1632, Lucy, second daughter of his stepfather,
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, and his first wife, Catherine, second daughter of Sir William Spencer of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, and had, with other issue,
Henry, and Hugh (1637–1683), who inherited the estate at Docking in Norfolk.
Lady Coleraine survived until February 1681/82, and was buried on the 9th at Totteridge.
References
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1606 births
1667 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
Peers of Ireland created by Charles I
Barons Coleraine