Sir Thomas Hare, 4th Baronet (1686–1760)

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was a British politician who sat in the

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between 1713 and 1715. Hare was the second son of

Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet (c. 1658 - 1 January 1693) was a member of the East Anglian gentry and a Member of the Parliament of England. Life He was the eldest son of Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet (died 1672) by his first wife - her name is unknow ...

of Stow Hall and his wife Elizabeth Dashwood, daughter of George Dashwood of Hackney. He entered

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in 1703. At the

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Hare was returned as

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for

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. He opposed the

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, and in June was awarded a post as first register and clerk of the crown in Barbados. On the accession of King George I he was deprived of his post. He faced impeachment as a member of the previous administration and did not stand for parliament in 1715. He succeeded his brother Ralph as 4th Baronet on 22 September 1732. He died on 21 February 1760, having married Rosamond, the daughter of Charles Newby of Hooton, Yorkshire. He left 2 daughters and was therefore succeeded by his younger brother George. George died unmarried four years later and the baronetcy then became extinct (although revived in 1818). Stow Hall passed to their sister Mary (married to Thomas Leigh) and her descendants, who later changed their name to Hare.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Hare, Thomas 1686 births 1760 deaths Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford British MPs 1713–1715 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Truro Baronets in the Baronetage of England People from Stow Bardolph