Charles Hoare (cricketer, born 1847)

[6] He also became Master of the Vale of White Horse Hunt[7] and was President of Hampshire County Cricket Club for three years.

[4] In the late 1870s he began a relationship with Beatrice Holme Sumner, who at that time was a minor; the affair became public knowledge in 1885, when members of Sumner's family sought a court order restricting Hoare from continuing the relationship and demanding his committal to prison.

[10] In 1885 Hoare founded TS Mercury at Binstead on the Isle of Wight as a charitable venture formed with the objective of rescuing poor boys of good character and training them for naval service.

[12] The entire TS Mercury establishment, with Hoare as its superintendent, moved from Binstead to Hamble-le-Rice near Southampton in 1892.

[13] In June 1898, following Beatrice Holme-Sumner's marriage to the cricketer, C. B. Fry,[9] Hoare retired to Hall Place, West Meon where he died in May 1908 aged 61 after a long illness.