Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel

Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel (12 September 1866 – 16 November 1931), styled Viscount Ennismore from 1866 to 1924, was an Irish peer and British Army officer.

Lord Ennismore was the eldest son of William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel and Lady Ernestine Brudenell-Bruce, daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury and Hon.

Commissioned as a lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards in 1890, he later transferred to the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, Lord Ennismore was seconded for active service with the Imperial Yeomanry, and on 3 February 1900 appointed a lieutenant of the 45th (Dublin) Company,[2][3] attached to the 13th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.

[4] He was then subsequently on the Western Front for the Great War, where he was promoted to Major as a volunteer for the County of London regiment, before being transferred back to the Royal Munster Fusiliers.