Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine
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The Lord Coleraine | |
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| Born | 10 May 1693 |
| Died | 1 August 1749 (aged 56) |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Known for | Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Society Antiquaries |
| Father | Hugh Hare |
Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, FRS, FSA (10 May 1693 – 1 August 1749) was an English antiquary, peer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1730 to 1734, representing the constituency of Boston.
Born in Betchworth, Surrey, 10 May 1693, he was the eldest son of the Hon. Hugh Hare, by his wife Lydia, daughter of Matthew Carlton of Edmonton, Middlesex. He was educated at Enfield under Robert Uvedale. On the death of his grandfather, Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, in 1708, he succeeded to the title as Baron Coleraine. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on 2 February 1712, aged 17.[1] He was under the tuition of John Rogers, who in 1716 married his sister Lydia.[2]
Coleraine visited Italy three times; the second time, about 1723, in company with Conyers Middleton, when he made a collection of prints and drawings of the antiquities, buildings, and pictures in Italy, given after his death to Corpus Christi College. He was a member of the Republica Letteraria di Arcadia, and a friend of the Marquis Scipio Maffei, who renewed their friendship at Coleraine's country seat, Bruce Castle, Tottenham.[2]
Coleraine was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 8 December 1725, and frequently acted as vice-president. On 18 May 1727 he became a member of the Gentleman's Society at Spalding, Lincolnshire, and was also a member of the Brasenose Society. In the following year he was Grand Master of Freemasons. He was chosen Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 January 1730.
Coleraine was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for Boston, Lincolnshire, in a contested by-election on 22 January 1730. He voted against the Administration on the army in 1732 and on the Excise Bill in 1733. He spoke against the Address on 17 January 1734, and in March against authorizing the King to increase his forces if an emergency occurred during the parliamentary recess. He did not stand at the 1734 general election.[3]
Coleraine was a patron of George Vertue, and took him antiquarian tours in England to make drawing. He died in August 1749, and was buried at Tottenham.[2]
Works
A copy of Latin alcaics from his pen was printed in the Academiæ Oxoniensis Comitia Philologica in honorem Annæ Pacificæ, 1713, and in the Musæ Anglicanæ, iii. 303, under the title of Musarum Oblatio. Basil Kennett, who in 1714 succeeded Thomas Turner in the presidency of Corpus, inscribed to Coleraine an epistolary poem on his predecessor's death.[2]
