Hugh Hare (MP for Bletchingley)

Appointed chairman of the general quarter sessions for Surrey, held at Dorking, 5 April 1692, he delivered a "religious, learned, and loyal" charge, which he published by request (London, 1692; 2nd edit. 1696). From the Italian of Agostino Mascardi he translated An Historical Relation of the Conspiracy of John Lewis Count de Fieschi, against the City and Republick of Genoua in the year 1547, London, 1693. He was also one of several who helped in the translation of the Works of Lucian, 4 vols. London, 1711–10, to which is prefixed a Life by John Dryden.^[1]

By his wife Lydia, daughter of Matthew Carlton of Edmonton, Middlesex, who died before him and was also buried at Tottenham, he had a son Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine, and other issue.^[1]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1890). "Hare, Hugh (1668-1707)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.