John Gurney Hoare (7 May 1810 – 16 February 1875) was an English

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er with amateur status, and later a banker.

Biography

Hoare was born in

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, London, to Samuel Hoare (1783–1847), a partner in Bland, Barnett & Hoare, bankers (which after mergers and name changes was eventually taken over by Lloyds Bank), and his wife Louisa, the daughter of John Gurney. He was the grandson of the

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banker Samuel Hoare, one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as 20th Wrangler. He became a partner in his father's bank and inherited Hill House, Hampstead. A plaque near the site of the house states that "he was the prime mover in the battle to save

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from development."

Cricket

While he was at Cambridge, Hoare appeared in one first-class cricket match in 1831, playing for Cambridge University as a batsman of unknown

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. His name was recorded incorrectly as "James Gurney Hoare". He scored nine runs over both

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with a highest score of 7 not out.

Family

On 18 March 1837, at St Martin's Church,

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, in

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, Hoare married Caroline (1814–1878), the daughter of Charles Barclay (1780–1855) and Anna Maria Kett (1781–1840), of Cheapside, London. John and Caroline's eldest son,

Samuel Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

, was MP for Norwich from 1886 to 1906, and in 1889 the Hoare baronetcy was created for him. Hoare died on 10 March 1875 at the Grand Hotel in

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, France,Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright. and was buried there.

References

1810 births 1875 deaths John Gurney English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Cambridge University cricketers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bankers 19th-century English businesspeople {{england-cricket-bio-1810s-stub