Ernest Soares

Sir Ernest Joseph Soares (20 October 1864 – 15 March 1926) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician. He resided at 36 Princes Gate, London,Address in 1917, per

Western Times newspaper, Devon, 1 Mar 1917 [http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=kate%20mc%20aloon&county=devon%2C%20england]

and of Upcott HouseAddress before 1917, per Western Times newspaper, Devon, 1 Mar 1917 in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple in North Devon,

Early life

Soares was the son of José Luís Xavier Soares, a Liverpool merchant, tracing his roots to Ucassaim, Portuguese Goa and Hannah Hollingsworth of Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&q=ernest+soares+hannah+hollingsworth&pg=PA1242|title = The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|last1 = Walford|first1 = Edward|date = January 1860}} Prior to conversion to Roman Catholicism, the family were Gaud Saraswat Brahmins (GSB) with the surname Gaitonde.{{cite book | title=Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | author=Vaz, J. Clement | year=1997 | pages=262}}

Career

File:Sir Ernest Soares.jpg used by Soares in defending his seat of Barnstaple in the January 1906 General Election]]

He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he read law.{{acad|id=SRS881EJ|name=Soares,Ernest Joseph}} He was a partner in Allen, Prestage and Soares, solicitors, of Manchester. In 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons for Barnstaple, and rented Upcott House, where he was resident in 1901, a large white stucco Georgian mansion one mile from the centre of Barnstaple and a prominent landmark for the voters and inhabitants of that town, from Sir William Robert Williams, 3rd Baronet of nearby Heanton Court. He served in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1910 to 1911. The latter year failing health forced him to resign this post and his seat in the House of Commons. He was knighted the same year.

Marriage and children

When Soares was working as a solicitor in Manchester and residing at Woodheys,Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html]Now "Woodheys Social Club" on Washway Road, in Ashton upon Mersey (today Sale), he married Kate Carolyn Lord (1864-1932), daughter of his then near-neighbour Samuel Lord (1803-1889), the British-born American retail millionaire and founder of Lord & Taylor today the oldest luxury department store in the United States. Lord was born in Saddleworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, and emigrated to America in about 1821. Having retired from managing his retail empire, in 1866 he returned to England and resided at Oakleigh, on The Avenue in Ashton upon Mersey. Lord left nine million dollars (£1.848 millionLawrence H. Officer, "Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791," MeasuringWorth, 2017 [https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangepound/result.php]) at his death.Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html] By his wife Soares had one daughter and only child:

Kate Rose Mary Soares (b. 1894), who married Captain Walter Bell (1880–1954), MC,Western Times newspaper, Devon, 2 Mar 1917 known as Karamojo Bell, the Scottish adventurer and African big game hunter.

Death

He died in Mayfair, London, in March 1926, at the age of 61.

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20140408042211/http://www.luso.u-net.com/manchest.htm Biography of Sir Ernest Soares at The Luso Pages]
Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present; Clement J Vaz; published 1997; pg 262.