Sir Edward Hoare, 2nd Baronet explained

Sir Edward Hoare, 2nd Baronet (14 March 1745 – 30 April 1814) was an Anglo-Irish politician.

He was the son of Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet and Catherine Somerville^[1] and was commissioned as an officer in the service of the 13th Light Dragoons, eventually attaining the rank of captain.

He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Carlow, sitting between 1768 and 1776.^[2] He was later elected MP for Banagher in 1790, sitting until 1798, and was again elected for the same constituency later in the year, sitting until 1800.^[3]

He succeeded to his father's baronetcy on 24 December 1801. He married Clotilda Wallis, the daughter of William Wallis, on 14 September 1771 and together they had three children.^[4]

Notes and References

1. John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), 615.
2. John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), 615.
3. Web site: Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800. Ulster Historical Foundation. 26 May 2014.
4. John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Volume 1 (H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832), 615.