Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine

Coleraine corresponded with Dr. John Woodward on antiquarian subjects, and was tutored in numismatics by Walter Charleton.^[1][3] He left in manuscript an account of Tottenham, which treats mainly the parochial charities. Richard Rawlinson purchased it from Thomas Osborne, the bookseller, and showed it to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1755. It went to the Bodleian Library. Richard Gough had a transcript taken, for the appendix to Henry George Oldfield and Richard Randall Dyson's History and Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham High-Cross (1790), where its authorship is attributed to Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine.^[1]

Coleraine was married three times:

• First to Constantia (died 1680), daughter of Sir Richard Lucy of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, by whom he had Hugh Hare, and other children;
• Secondly to Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Somerset, widow of John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (died 1692). Sarah remained a Duchess irrespective of her marriage due to a pre-nuptial agreement. She was very wealthy before she became a Duchess.^[4] and
• Thirdly, in 1696, to Elizabeth Portman (died 1732), widow of Robert Reade of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.^[1]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1890). "Hare, Henry (1636-1708)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 366–367.