John Gurney Hoare (7 May 1810 – 16 February 1875) was an English cricketer with amateur status, and later a banker.
He was the grandson of the Quaker banker Samuel Hoare, one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
A plaque near the site of the house states that "he was the prime mover in the battle to save Hampstead Heath from development.
[5] On 18 March 1837, at St Martin's Church, Dorking, in Surrey, Hoare married Caroline (1814–1878),[6][3] the daughter of Charles Barclay (1780–1855) and Anna Maria Kett (1781–1840), of Cheapside, London.
John and Caroline's eldest son, Samuel, was MP for Norwich from 1886 to 1906, and in 1889 the Hoare baronetcy was created for him.