Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, 5th baronet DL (14 April 1824 – 7 July 1894) was an English banker and

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politician who sat in the

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between 1866 and 1874.

Life

Hoare was the son of Henry Charles Hoare, and his wife Anne Penelope Ainslie, daughter of General George Ainslie. He was educated at

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and

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before entering the family bank Messrs Hoare and Co. He succeeded his uncle Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, 4th Baronet in the

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in 1857 and moved to

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. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset and Wiltshire.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1870
/ref> In 1865, Hoare was elected

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for

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but was unseated in 1866. At the 1868 general election, he was elected MP for

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. He held the seat until 1874. Henry Ainslie Hoare Vanity Fair 24 February 1883

Hoare had a restless temperament and expensive tastes, including hunting and horse racing, which left him short of money. In 1883, during the agricultural depression, he had to sell at auction many of Stourhead's treasures, including

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’s collection of books on British history and a series of watercolour paintings by Turner. Hoare left Stourhead and lived in France in his later years, where he fell ill in 1894. He returned to London and died at the age of 70 at 12, West Eaton Place,

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, and was buried at Stourton.

Family

Hoare married Augusta Frances Clayton East, daughter of Sir East George Clayton East, in 1845. Their only son died in childhood, and the baronetcy passed to a cousin. Their daughter Augusta Frances Anne married, firstly in 1868, William John Nettleship Angerstein, son of William Angerstein, the marriage ending in divorce in 1887; and secondly in 1894 James St Aubyn Hastie of the Indian Army.

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