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Henry Hoare, an eminent banker known as ‘the magnificent’,1H. P. R. Hoare, Hoare’s Bank, 35. was a grandson of Sir Richard Hoare, M.P., the founder of Hoare’s bank in Fleet Street, of which Henry himself became a partner in 1726. After succeeding to his estates he began to lay out and plant a fine landscape garden at Stourhead, which had been bought by his father from the Stourtons in 1720. Returned as a Tory for Salisbury, he did not vote in any recorded division and did not stand again. In June 1766 he put up £13,000 in cash to enable his son-in-law, Lord Bruce, to buy out Earl Verney’s interest in Great Bedwyn.2Lord Cardigan, Wardens of Savernake, 278. He died 8 Sept. 1785.