Sir Thomas Hare, 2nd Baronet (c. 1658 – 1 January 1693), was a member of the

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n gentry and a Member of the

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Life

He was the eldest son of

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(died 1672), by his first wife; her name is unknown. He attended

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, from 1672, the year in which he also succeeded his father in the baronetcy. His guardian was Sir Horatio Townshend, but his tutor at Cambridge was Dr Robert Brady. He headed his tenants at the county election in February 1679 but was still too young to replace Sir Christopher Calthorpe as MP for

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in 1679. On 20 April 1680 he married Elizabeth Dashwood, daughter of a merchant from Hackney named George Dashwood. They had four sons and five daughters. One of the younger sons,

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, was a Tory MP for

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from 1713 to 1715. Also in 1680 he became a justice of the peace, followed by deputy lieutenant of Norfolk in 1683.

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nominated him as a pro- Charles II candidate for Norfolk in 1681, but he lost the election, only to win in 1685. In 1682 he became a freeman of

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and was one of the Norfolk signatories to the loyal address critiquing the Association. On questioning by the

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he refused to support repealing the

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and

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against Roman Catholics. This led to his removal from his deputy lieutenancy and his post as JP in February 1688 and in October that year he was offered a return to the bench but refused, since he would have to sit on the bench with Roman Catholics. After the

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he seems to have become a non-juror. He was only 35 at his death and was buried in

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. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Ralph Hare, who became the 3rd Baronet.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hare, Thomas 1650s births 1693 deaths Deputy lieutenants of Norfolk English justices of the peace Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge English MPs 1685–1687 Members of the Parliament of England for Norfolk People from Stow Bardolph

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