Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet

Sir Ralph Hare, 1st Baronet (24 March 1623 – 28 February 1672) of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1654 and 1672.

Hare was created a baronet, of Stow Bardolph in the County of Norfolk on 23 July 1641[2] and appointed Sheriff of Norfolk for 1650.

[4] In 1660, he was elected MP for King's Lynn in the Convention Parliament[5] and MP for Norfolk in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament, sitting until his death in 1672.

He had married firstly Mary Crane, daughter of Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet of Chilton, Suffolk, by whom he had seven children, of whom Thomas succeeded him.

He married thirdly Elizabeth Chapman of Suffolk, and by that lady left a posthumous son, John, who died in infancy.

Ralph Hare (as depicted in An address from the gentry of Norfolk and Norwich to General Monck in 1660 (1913); facsimile of a manuscript in the Norwich Public Library. With an introduction by Hamon le Strange and biographical notes by Walter Rye )