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English founder of C. Hoare & Co
- Sir Richard Hoare (1648 – 6 January 1719) was the English founder of C. Hoare & Co, the oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom.
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Sir Richard Hoare. Sir Richard Hoare (1648 – 6 January 1719) was the English founder of C. Hoare & Co, the oldest extant bank in the United Kingdom.
Feb 17, 2022 · Richard Hoare was born in 1648 – the year before Charles I was executed on the scaffold at Whitehall. He apprenticed to a goldsmith in 1665 – the year the great plague wiped out one in eight Londoners. He rose to become a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1672, which accorded him the right to practise as a goldsmith himself.
Jul 3, 2019 · The London firm was started in 1672 by Richard Hoare and has tended to the affairs of diarist Samuel Pepys, poet Lord Byron and novelist Jane Austen. That’s almost a hundred years older than...
Richard Hoare may refer to: Richard Hoare (banker) (1648–1719), founder of C. Hoare & Co, one of the United Kingdom's oldest private banks. Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Baronet (1735–1787), see Hoare baronets.
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county of Wiltshire.
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In 1712, Richard Hoare served as Lord Mayor of London – the first of several Hoares to hold that post. Richard Hoare brought the sign of the Golden Bottle with him to Fleet Street. The sign itself, a simple leather bottle that was gilded to catch the attention of passers-by, may once have been affixed above the entrance to the shop, but now ...
