Henry Gerard Hoare
(1827-1896)
9 May 1865

Volume 12, page 291, sitting number 16,313.

Born on 7 June 1827, Henry Gerard Hoare was the seventh (and youngest) son of the Venerable Charles James Hoare, for many years the Vicar of Godstone, near Reigate, and from 1849 the Archdeacon of Surrey.

On 10 November1859 he married Jane Frances Alderson, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Hurry Alderson, the Rector of Risby in Suffolk. The couple appear on the 1871 census, living at Stanstead House, Godstone [Surrey], with their four children, and seven servants. Mr Hoare gave ‘Banker and Landowner' as his profession.

Henry Gerard Hoare 'of 37 Fleet-street London and of Stansted house Godstone Surrey' died, aged 68, on 16 April 1896 at Stansted House. He left an estate valued at £70,603.

'The death of the above lamented gentleman [...] will create a vacuum in the neighbourhood socially and politically. He was a true friend, and this trait gained for him the highest esteem in his neighbourhood. Mr Henry Gerard Hoare — usually known as Mr Gerard Hoare — was born in 1827 at Godstone Rectory, being a son of the late Rev. Charles James Hoare, MA, who was rector of Godstone for fifty years, Canon of Winchester, and Archdeacon successively of Winchester and Surrey. After being educated at home, and passing some time at Oxford, he entered the well-known banking house in Fleet-street, becoming an active and prominent partner. [...] For upwards of 200 years the family has been a notable one in commercial enterprise. His grandfather, Mr Henry Hoare, of Mitcham, was senior partner in the bank, and a direct descendant of James Hoare, the founder of the business, who was also Comtroller of the Mint in 1662, "Surveyor of the Maltings and Clerk of the Irons," in 1665, and later Warden of the Mint. [...] Deceased was an ardent Conservative of the old school. [...] He always kept the Conservative cause steadily in view. His good common-sense observations on passing politics and his thorough English character made him and his position respected. [...] He was a staunch Churchman, and for a great number of years had been the elected churchwarden of Godstone, of which the present Rector (the Rev. J.S. Hoare) is his brother. Apart from his reputation as a perfect man of business, he was known to all the country round as, in every sense of the word, a thorough sportsman. One could hardly mention a single manly sport that he was not fond of, but hunting, after all, was his greatest delight' (Westerham Herald, 25 April 1896).