Reginald Hoare
{{Short description|British diplomat and banker}}
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{{infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Sir Reginald Hoare
| honorific_suffix =KCMG
| office = British Envoy to Romania
| term_start = 1935
| term_end = 1941
| predecessor = Michael Palairet
| successor = No representation due to World War II
| office1 = British Envoy to Persia
| term_start1 = 1931
| term_end1 = 1934
| predecessor1 = Sir Robert Clive
| successor1 = Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
| birth_name = Reginald Hervey Hoare
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1882|07|19}}
| birth_place = Minley Manor, Hampshire
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1954|08|12|1882|07|19}}
| death_place = London, England
| education = Eton College
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Diplomat, banker
| parents = Charles Hoare
Katharine Patience Georgiana Hervey
| spouse = {{marriage|Lucy Joan Cavendish-Bentinck
|1922|}}
| children =
| relations = Lord Arthur Hervey (grandfather)
}}
Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare KCMG (19 July 1882 – 12 August 1954) was a British diplomat and banker.
Early life
Hoare was born on 19 July 1882 at Minley Manor in Hampshire. Rex, as he was known,{{cite web |title=Manuscript of the Month |url=https://www.hoaresbank.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/Documents/scripts/Dec%2013%20-%20Eton%20Ramblers.pdf |website=hoaresbank.co.uk |publisher=C. Hoare & Co |accessdate=12 November 2019}} was the fourth son, in a family of four sons and three daughters, of Katharine Patience Georgiana Hervey and Charles Hoare (1844–1898), senior partner of C. Hoare & Co.{{cite ODNB |title=Hoare, Sir Reginald Hervey (1882–1954), diplomatist {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33897|year=2004 }} His maternal grandparents were the former Patience Singleton and Lord Arthur Hervey, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1869 to 1894 (who was the fourth son of Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol).{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The Windsor Peerage for 1890–1894 |date=1893 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ick-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74 |accessdate=12 November 2019 |language=en}}
Through his father, he was a descendant of King Henry VII.{{cite book |last1=Ranieval |first1=The Marquis of Ruvigny and |title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume |date=2013 |publisher=Heritage Books |isbn=9780788418723 |page=335 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uOHHuwI8tD4C&pg=PA335 |accessdate=12 November 2019 |language=en}}
Hoare was educated at Eton College.
Career
After joining the diplomatic service in 1905, he served as diplomat to Bucharest, Constantinople (now known as Istanbul in Turkey), Rome, Cairo, Peking (today known as Beijing), and Petrograd (today known as Saint Petersburg).{{cite web |title=Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp131724/sir-reginald-hervey-hoare |website=npg.org.uk |publisher=National Portrait Gallery, London |accessdate=12 November 2019 }} While in Russia, he replaced Francis Oswald Lindley and served under British consul, Douglas Young.{{cite book |last1=Poole |first1=DeWitt Clinton |title=An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia |date=2014 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=9780299302245 |page=239 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vH7VBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA239 |accessdate=12 November 2019 |language=en}}
In 1931, he became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Persia in Tehran, serving until 1934. In 1934, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary to Romania and began serving in 1935.[http://thepeerage.com/p1824.htm#i18232 The Peerage.com]{{cite news |title=RUMANIA REBUFFS BRITAIN ON PROTEST; Rejects Charges on Arrests as Another Briton Is Kidnapped in Bucharest ENVOY CALLS A MEETING Sir Reginald Hoare in Secret Talk With Aides—Cruelty to Prisoners Reported |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/10/04/113107506.pdf |accessdate=12 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=4 October 1940}} Following King Carol's abdication in 1940, Hoare was withdrawn from Romania in 1941;{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Telephone To the New York |title=ITALY SILENT ON BALKANS; Only Comment Is Rumanians Won't Miss British Envoy |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/02/13/85214674.pdf |accessdate=12 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=13 February 1941}} he retired in 1942. Upon his exit from Rumania, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale d'Italia wrote:
"Hoare [Sir Reginald Hoare, British Minister to Rumania] goes without leaving any regret. On the contrary, if anything follows his flight it will be the maledictions of the widows and orphans of Rumanian workers whose lives were barbarously and uselessly sacrificed in the numerous and disastrous attempts at acts of sabotage carried out in the oil fields by British agents working under the personal direction of Hoare."
After his retirement from the government, he joined C. Hoare & Co., the family bank as a partner in 1944.
Personal life
In 1922, he married Lucy Joan Cavendish-Bentinck (1889–1971), the elder daughter of William George Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and Ruth Cavendish Bentinck.{{cite news |title=A marriage is arranged |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38880491/reginald_hoare_and_joan_cavendish/ |accessdate=12 November 2019 |work=The Observer |date=22 October 1922 |pages=11}} Lucy's grandfathers were Ferdinand Seymour, Earl St. Maur (son of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset) and the Rt. Hon. George Cavendish-Bentinck (grandson of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland). Lucy's brothers, Ferdinand and Victor, were the 8th and 9th Duke of Portland, respectively. Together, Reginald and Lucy were the parents of one child:
- Joseph Andrew Christopher Hoare (1925–2002), the former chairman of Association of Chartered & Technical Analysts. He married Lady Christina Alice McDonnell, a daughter of Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of Antrim and the artist Angela Sykes of Glenarm Castle.{{cite news |title=Joseph Andrew Christopher Hoare, who died 5 January, 2002, aged 76, was a kinsman of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. |year=2002}} Among her brothers was Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim and artist Hector McDonnell.
He lived at Pine Crest in Hawley and at 80 Harley House on Marylebone Road in London. Sir Reginald died in London on 12 August 1954.{{cite news |title=Sir Reginald Hoare, British Diplomat, 72 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/08/13/83774048.pdf |accessdate=12 November 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=13 August 1954}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp131724/sir-reginald-hervey-hoare Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare] at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Category:Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:People educated at Eton College