Sir Edward Hoare, 2nd Baronet (14 March 1745 – 30 April 1814) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was the son of

Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet (25 December 1707 – 24 December 1801) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Hoare was the son of Edward Hoare, the Member of Parliament for Cork, and Grace Burton. His family had settled in Ireland during the early part ...

and Catherine Somerville and was commissioned as an officer in the service of the

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, eventually attaining the rank of captain. He was elected to the

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as the Member of Parliament for Carlow, sitting between 1768 and 1776. He was later elected MP for

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in 1790, sitting until 1798, and was again elected for the same constituency later in the year, sitting until 1800. He succeeded to his father's

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on 24 December 1801. He married Clotilda Wallis, the daughter of William Wallis, on 14 September 1771 and together they had three children.John Burke, ''A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire'', Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), 615.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoare, Edward, 2nd Baronet 1745 births 1814 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for King's County constituencies