Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine

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Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine (1606 – 19 October 1667), was an English courtier.

Hare had inherited a large amount of money from his great-uncle Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolls. On the death of his father, his mother had remarried Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, allowing the young Hare to rise rapidly in Court and social circles. He married Montagu's daughter by his first marriage and purchased the manor of Tottenham, including the Lordship House, in 1625, and was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Coleraine shortly thereafter.

As he was closely associated with the court of Charles I, Coleraine's fortunes went into decline during the English Civil War. His castle at Longford and his house in Totteridge were seized by Parliamentary forces, and returned upon the Restoration in a severe state of disrepair. Records of Tottenham from the period are now lost, and the ownership and condition of the Lordship House during the Commonwealth of England are unknown. Lord Coleraine died at his home in Totteridge in 1667, having choked to death on a bone eating turkey whilst laughing and drinking, and was succeeded by his son Henry.

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