Sir John Hare, MP

Family and Education

b. 13 Oct 1603, o.s. of Sir Ralph Hare† of Stow Bardolph and his 1st w. Mary, da. of Sir Edward Holmden, alderman of London. m. settlement 18 Nov. 1620, Elizabeth (d.1644), da. of Sir Thomas Coventry* of Croome d’Abitot, Worcs., att.-gen. and ld. kpr., 5s. 7da. kntd. 4 Dec. 1617; suc. gt. uncle 1620, fa. 1623. d. 4 Nov. 1637. sig. John Hare.

Offices Held

Commr. game, Norf. 1622; j.p. Norf. and I. of Ely, Cambs. 1624-d.; commr. sewers, Norf. 1625-d., R. Gleane, Lincs. 1629, hundreds of Freebridge and Lynn, Norf. 1629, seabreaches Norf. 1625, oyer and terminer, Norf. and Suff. 1626-31, Cambs. Norf. and Suff. 1632-5, Norf. circ. 1636-7; dep. lt. Norf. 1626-d., commr. Forced Loan 1626-7, Admty. causes 1627, piracy 1627, impressment of mariners and soldiers 1627, charitable uses 1627, 1629-d., freeman, King’s Lynn, Norf. 1628; commr. subsidy, Norf. 1628, inquiry, Bury St. Edmund’s canal, Suff. 1636.

Biography

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