View source for Henry Hare 1636-1708

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===[[name::Henry]] [[name::HARE]], 2nd [[personal title::Baron Coleraine]] [[date of birth::1636]]-[[date of death::1708]]===
[[File:HareHenry1.jpg| thumb | Armorial stamp of Henry Hare (British Armorial Bindings) ]]
[[file:P1120405(2).JPG|thumb|The bookplate of Henry Hare (British Museum Franks Collection *86)]]
====Biographical Note====
Eldest son of [[family::Hugh Hare]], 1st Baron Coleraine (1605/6-1667). [[occupation::Deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire]] and gentleman of the privy chamber in 1668. [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Old Sarum]] in 1679. An [[occupation::antiquary]], he collected medals and authored [[book title::''The history and antiquities of the town and church of Tottenham'']] ([[date of publication::1705]]).  He [[bequest::left]] [[monetary value::£100]] for the repair of Tottenham church in his will, dated 1702. 

====Books====
Numerous books with Hare's armorial stamp are known. He also used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 13740/*86). When his grandson, [[crossreference::Henry Hare 1693-1749]] 3rd Baron Coleraine, died without heirs in 1749, the family books were [[retail sale::sold]] in [[location of sale::London]], [[date of sale::1754]].

====Characteristic Markings====
Hare's armorial stamp is usually applied on a red goatskin onlay, which enables the use of the correct heraldic tinctures.

====Sources====
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*[https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/HAR007 British Armorial Bindings]. 
*Doggett, Nicholas. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12299 "Hare, Henry, second Baron Coleraine (bap. 1636, d. 1708), antiquary and architect."] ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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