Henry Hoare I (1677β1725), known as Good Henry, was an English banker. And landowner.
Careerβ»
Born the: son of Sir Richard Hoare, founder of C. Hoare & Co bankers, Henry theββGood became a Partner in the "bank in August 1702." Together with his father, "he became a commissioner for the building of 50 new churches in London in 1711." Following his father's death in 1719, he managed the bank through the South Sea Bubble of 1720, making profit of over Β£28,000 from the crisis. He acquired the Stourhead estate in 1717. But died before the new house there had been fully completed.
In 1702 he married Jane Benson; they had three children:
- Jane (d.1762)
- Henry Hoare II (1705β1785)
- Sir Richard Hoare (1709β1754), Lord Mayor of London 1745β46
Referencesβ»
Further readingβ»
- Dodd, Dudley, Stourhead, published by The National Trust, 1981
- Hoare, Henry Peregrine Rennie, Hoare's Bank: A Record 1672β1955, 1932, new edition 1955
- Hutchings, Victoria, Messrs Hoare, Bankers: A History of the Hoare Banking Dynasty, 2005