Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet (7 September 1841 – 20 January 1915), was an English
Conservative Party politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1886 to 1906.
Family
Hoare was the eldest son of
John Gurney Hoare (1810–1875) and Caroline Barclay (d. 1878) and a grandson of the diarist
Louisa Gurney. His great-grandfathers included the
Quaker bankers
John Gurney and
Samuel Hoare.
In 1866, he married Katherine Louisa Hart Davis (1846–1931), with whom he had seven children.
Education and career
Hoare was educated at Bayfield Preparatory School,
Harrow School
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, where he played cricket in the
University
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trials; he also played for
Quidnuncs. He undertook two tours of the Mediterranean and Middle East between 1862 and 1865.
At the
1885 general election he unsuccessfully contested
North Norfolk.
He was elected as a
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Norwich
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at a by-election in April 1886, and retained the seat until he stood down at the
1906 general election.
Baronetcy
In 1880, Hoare purchased Sidestrand Hall in
Sidestrand
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,
Norfolk
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, from the
Spurrell family.
On 7 August 1899, the
Hoare baronetcy, of Sidestrand Hall, was created for him. On his death in 1915, the title passed to his elder son,
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, who held several
Cabinet positions in the 1930s and was elevated to the peerage as
Viscount Templewood in 1944.
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1841 births
1915 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
People educated at Harrow School
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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UK MPs 1885–1886
UK MPs 1886–1892
UK MPs 1892–1895
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