Henry Hoare

Henry's grandfather, Richard Hoare, was a goldsmith-banker and Lord Mayor of London.

His father, Henry Hoare I, bought the ancestral estate of the Stourtons and built a Palladian villa designed by Colen Campbell.

His nickname, "Henry The Magnificent", derived in part from his influence as a great patron of the Arts, but more particularly because he laid out the gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire, an estate bought by his father.

[6] He died in 1785 leaving Stourhead to the son of his daughter Ann (1734–1759), Richard Colt Hoare.

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Henry Hoare portrayed by his friend the painter William Hoare about 1750–1760
Memorial in St Peter's Church, Stourton