Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare
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(19 July 1882 – 12 August 1954) was a British diplomat and banker.
Early life
Hoare was born on 19 July 1882 at
Minley Manor
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in Hampshire. Rex, as he was known,
was the fourth son, in a family of four sons and three daughters, of Katharine Patience Georgiana Hervey and Charles Hoare (1844–1898), senior partner of
C. Hoare & Co.
His maternal grandparents were the former Patience Singleton and
Lord Arthur Hervey
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, the
Bishop of Bath and Wells
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The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of Do ...
from 1869 to 1894 (who was the fourth son of
Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol
Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol (2 October 1769 – 15 February 1859), styled Lord Hervey between 1796 and 1803 and known as The Earl of Bristol between 1803 and 1826, was a British peer.
Biography
Early life
Frederick Willia ...
).
Through his father, he was a descendant of King
Henry VII.
Hoare was educated at
Eton College
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.
Career
After joining the
diplomatic service
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in 1905, he served as diplomat to
Bucharest
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,
Constantinople
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, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
(now known as
Istanbul
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in Turkey), Rome,
Cairo
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,
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(today known as Beijing), and
Petrograd
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
(today known as
Saint Petersburg
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).
While in Russia, he replaced
Francis Oswald Lindley
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and served under British consul, Douglas Young.
In 1931, he became
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Persia in
Tehran
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, serving until 1934. In 1934, he was appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Romania and began serving in 1935.
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'' wrote:"Hoare ir Reginald Hoare, British Minister to Rumaniagoes without leaving any regret. On the contrary, if anything follows his flight it will be the maledictions of the widows and orphans of Rumanian workers whose lives were barbarously and uselessly sacrificed in the numerous and disastrous attempts at acts of sabotage carried out in the oil fields by British agents working under the personal direction of Hoare."
After his retirement from the government, he joined C. Hoare & Co., the family bank as a partner in 1944.
Personal life
In 1922, he married Lucy Joan Cavendish-Bentinck (1889–1971), the elder daughter of William George Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and Ruth Cavendish Bentinck
Ruth Mary Cavendish-Bentinck ( St Maur; 21 October 1867 – 28 January 1953) was a Morocco-born British aristocrat, suffragist and socialist. Her library was the basis for what is now the Women's Library.
Early life
Bentinck was born in Tangier ...
.Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset
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) and the Rt. Hon.
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George Cavendish-Bentinck
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(grandson of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
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). Lucy's brothers, Ferdinand
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and Victor
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, were the 8th and 9th Duke of Portland
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, respectively. Together, Reginald and Lucy were the parents of one child:
* Joseph Andrew Christopher Hoare (1925–2002), the former chairman of Association of Chartered & Technical Analysts. He married Lady Christina Alice McDonnell, a daughter of Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim
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and the artist Angela Sykes
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Early life and education
Angela Christina Sykes was born 6 ...
of Glenarm Castle
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History
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.Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim
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He lived mostly at his ancestral home, Glenarm Castle, County ...
and artist Hector McDonnell
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Early life
A younger son of Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim, by his marriage to the ...
.
He lived at Pine Crest in Hawley and at 80 Harley House on Marylebone Road
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in London. Sir Reginald died in London on 12 August 1954.
References
External links
Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare
at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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1882 births
1954 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
People educated at Eton College
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Iran
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Romania