#7267, Samuel HOARE

Samuel's parents were Samuel Hoare (I) and Grizell Gurnell

He married secondly Hannah Sterry, daughter of Henry Sterry on 17th June 1788.  They had no children.

Samuel Hoare (2nd or Jr) was a wealthy British Quaker banker and abolitionist.  His London seat was Heath House on Hampstead Heath.  He was one of twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.  He was also involved in a plan to establish a free black colony in Sierra Leone.

In 1802 his daughter Hannah married Thomas Marlborough Pryor.  His son Samuel (1783-1847) learned banking in Lombard St. from 1803, and in 1806 he married Louisa Gurney (1784-1806) of Earlam Hall near Norwich.  This connected the family to Gurney's Bank and also to Louisa's siblings Elizabeth Fry, prison reformer, Joseph John Gurney and Samuel Gurney, philanthropists, and Daniel Gurney, banker and antiquary.  The marriage was strongly supported by Samuel Hoare Jr

His descendants included Sir Samuel Hoare MP., and Viscount Templewood.  His banking firm later merged with those of Joseph John Gurney and Barclays to form part of Barclays Bank.  The archaeologist Francis Pryor is his four times great-grandson.